I recently found a service called Slydial that forces your calls to bypass the chance of talking to a person and goes straight to their voice mail! This service works like a charm, does not require registration and is free! Here are a few situations when the service might be useful.
How to Get Started: Add the Slydial phone number (267-SLYDIAL or 267-759-3425) to your contacts on your phone. Call the number, and when prompted, enter the mobile number that you would like to slydial. Wait for a bit, and you are connected straight to voice mail. That's it!
Limitations: This service only works with mobile numbers. You do have to listen to an advertisement while you wait for your call to connect, but it didn't bother me. I have used it three times so far, and two of the three times, it worked. I am guessing that the third person I tried to call did not have voice mail turned on on their mobile phone. Even with the limitations listed above, I am going to continue using the service.
Premium Service: Slydial does have a premium service that removes advertising from the calls and offers several other features. The service is $2.95 per month or $29.95 per year. Or, you can per single use at $.10 per slydial.
Mobile Apps: There is an iPhone app for Slydial, but it received bad reviews in its current version, so I'm going to pass on that for now. There are also apps for Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile, but I don't have any knowledge of how well they work.
Use SlyDial to go straight to voice mail when you are calling mobile numbers. Let me know if it works for you.
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