GrandCentral
Based: Fremont, CA
Founded: 2005
www.grandcentral.com
The pitch is simple: one phone number for life. GrandCentral isn't the first with that pitch, of course. AT&T used to sell 700 numbers with the same promise, but that service was little more than glorified call forwarding. GrandCentral uses VoIP plumbing to do something more: have any or all of your phone numbers ring when you get a call, and consolidate your voice mail using a handy Web interface. It's slick, it's easy, it's powerful and it's one of the best applications of VoIP we've seen yet.
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Excellent concept. Deserves to rule. Some of my favorite GrandCentral features:
Switch between your home and your mobile phone while you are on a call, (your caller won't know unless you tell them) saving airtime minutes.
Listen in on voicemail messages as they are left, and pick up if you wish to.
Specify on a per person basis:
Which phones ring;
Whether the call goes directly to voice mail;
Which voicemail message they will hear.
Stop phones from ringing when a telemarketer calls.
Direct all calls to a new, temporary number (like a hotel).
Prevent different numbers from ringing at different times, such as turning off your home line from ringing during work hours.
Allow people to call you from a website without ever learning your number.
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