Link all your phone numbers to a single source

A couple of months ago I signed up for a free service called GrandCentral. They give you a phone number in your own area code, if available (USA only,) which controls all your calls and voicemails to all your various phone numbers - home, work, cell.

No need to give out all your various phone numbers. Just give your contacts your GrandCentral phone number. It will forward ringing and voicemail to any phone number that you choose - even several phones at once. For example, you can set your cell phone and home phone to ring at the same time - which is handy if you are expecting an important call. Or, you can set only one phone to ring, keeping your other lines silent.

Your GrandCentral phone number is permanent. Thus, if you change your home, work or cell phone number, there is no need to inform your contacts. They can continue to use your GrandCentral phone number, which you will simply forward to your new private number.

Forwarding calls to any and all of your phones is just one of many features. GrandCentral enables you to screen out selected callers or send them to a voicemail box for "spam" messages. You can also listen to voicemail as it's being recorded (rather than waiting till after it's recorded), check voicemail on the Web, and change from talking on a cell phone to a landline phone in the middle of a call without hanging up - useful when your cell reception starts to break up while talking.

Setting up your GrandCentral service takes a bit of effort, but if you want to have more control over your incoming phone calls and messages, it's worth a try.

GrandCentral was just acquired by Google. They are giving out phone numbers only by invitation at this point. I have 5 invites. If you're interested, write to me, and I'll get you started.


Pauline
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