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Stay in Control of Your phone Calls with GrandCentral

GrandCentral is a new internet telephone service that solves a critical communications problem for many people, which is too many ways to be reached: cell phone, home phone, office phone, vacation phone, and so on.

GrandCentral provides customers with one phone number that finds you at all the phones registered with your GrandCentral account. If someone phones you at the office for example, but you are out at lunch, your cell phone rings. In telephony circles, this feature is sometimes called Find Me, Follow Me.

You can also switch phones in the middle of a call. Say you are talking on your cell but when you walk in the door of your office, you want to switch to your desk phone. No problem. Just press *, your desk phone rings, you pick up, and keep on talking.

You can start or stop recording a call at any time. And you can check your voicemail messages by phone, email, or online.

There is no software to buy or install, and signing up for a basic GrandCentral account is free. A premium account costs around $10/month. The main difference being that you can have up to six phones attached to your account instead of three.

GrandCentral phone numbers are available in nearly every U.S. state and soon will be available in Canada. Because the basic service is free, you can take GrandCentral for a test drive. And if you do, we’d love to hear from you. Tell us what you think!

Here’s a rundown of features:

• One number for life for everybody to reach you
• Voice mail access by phone, email, and online
• Distinctive ringing depending on who’s calling—you decide which phone rings, which voicemail greetings are played, etc.
• Listen to voice messages as they are being left Custom voicemail greetings depending on who’s calling – friends, coworkers, family, and so on.
• Choose to have all or only unknown callers announced before taking the call (call screening)
• Record any call
• Block callers or flag annoying callers as SPAM
• Temporarily set do not disturb and call forward
• Point and click dialing from your GrandCentral online address book (outbound dialing rates apply)
• Free inbound minutes.

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