GrandCentral: Replace Your Many Phone Numbers With Just One
- March 15th, 2007
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GrandCentral aims to solve the problem of having too many phone numbers. You’ve got your home phone number, the cell, the office, the other cell, etc. Surely this is madness, right? GrandCentral, which is in the final stages of beta testing, replaces all those phone numbers with a single, unified one. (The New York Times’ David Pogue calls it a “uninumber.” Genius.) So instead of your friends trying to reach you at any one of your half dozen numbers, they just have to call your GC number. When they call the uninumber, all of the phones that you registered to your GC account ring.
It doesn’t end there. GrandCentral provides unified voice mail, so all those missed calles—be they on your home or cellphone—are sent to a single voice mail. The service is free if you only have two numbers that you need to consolidate; the prices increases to $15 per month past that. Pretty cool, but I like being able to miss calls all the time. It lets me shirk my many responsibilities.
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones [New York Times]
Zach Katkin Fort Myers Web Design (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Awesome idea. I have 4 phones and two lines at work, this is sure to help.
Brian Hutchison (Who am I?)
1 year ago
AT&T used to offer a similiar service called, if I recall, a Universal Number. This was many years ago (14 or so?). I had one and it was great while I juggled friends, a consulting business, and graduate school. I sort of wished I had kept it, but gave it up along the way.