澳大利亚一家手机公司为客户提供了一项服务,让他们可以在去市区狂欢一夜之前封锁一些电话号码,由此避免在深夜打出令人尴尬、语无伦次的电话。维珍集团(英国商业巨头——译者注,下同)与奥普图斯公司(澳大利亚电信巨头)的合资公司维珍手机公司对409个人进行了调查,发现其中有95%曾经在酒醉之后打过电话。这些电话中有30%是打给老情人的,19%是打给现任伴侣的,还有36%打到了包括他们老板在内的 An Australian mobile phone company provides customers with a service that allows them to block some phone numbers until they go downtown for a night, thereby avoiding embarrassing, incoherent calls late at night. Virgin Mobile, a joint venture between Virgin Group and Optus, an Australian telecoms giant, surveyed 409 individuals and found that 95% of them were drunk After the call. Thirty percent of those calls were made to the old lover, 19% to the incumbent, and 36% to the other, including their boss