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Call A Random Swede
"Hallå!" or "Hej!"
I wish I had known about this when it took place, but it was way back in 2016.
To celebrate Sweden and 250 years since being the first country in the world to introduce a law to abolish censorship, the Swedish tourist board set up a phone number ‘for the country’, one number you can call that gets you connected to a completely random Swede +46 771 793 336.
You could be connected to anyone, living in any part of the country…
Most of the calls people reported getting were from the press, live radio and live TV, naturally, the world was just so curious to see if this was actually legit…
It is important to note that, if you are Swedish you did have to sign up to this, they didn’t just add everyone’s personal number into the mix.
Both the caller’s number and the Swede’s remained anonymous to each other.
When you called, you just paid the standard rate for calling an international number and then continued to be reconnected to different Swedes until somebody answered.
“We want to spark people’s curiosity about Sweden - our culture, nature and mind set, to help us do this, we have the people of Sweden.
Everyone who lives in Sweden is able to register as an ambassador. When you call you will be connected to a random Swede. The chances that you are connected to the same Swede twice are small - so you get a new side of Sweden every time you call.”
(read more - Sweden’s Tourist Association)
Sweeden was called from over 190 countries, the US being the most common.
Over the 79 days that the line was open, they took a whopping 197,678 calls…
The average call time was 2mins 40sec.
I think we should do this in Ireland.
It’d be absolutely gas…
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