Link All Your Phones Together With New Technology

GrandCentral (GC) is an internet service owned by Google that utilizes VoIP to connect your phone numbers together. When you sign up with GC, you'll be given a single central number that you can keep for life and is routed to the phones of your choosing. Due to the fact that the service uses the internet, you have the advantage of altering phone settings yourself.
When the GC number is called, the phone or phones that you have selected (i.e. cell phone, business phone, home phone) will ring, allowing you to answer the chosen phone. This can be very convenient, because you can choose which phone should ring based on the time of day. For instance, your home phone can be turned off during business hours, and it can be personalized based on an address book or based on groups such as Family, Friends, Work, etc. You can even designate callers to a specific phone.
GrandCentral provides you with many different features including:

Name-based caller ID from your contact list
Call screening. Know who's calling and screen the calls you don't want
Block callers. This includes automatic blocking of telemarketer numbers with the database.
Call recording. You can record calls and access the recordings online
Switch lines during a call
Personalize your voicemail greetings based on the caller, and save your voicemails forever
Centralized voicemail that can be checked from the website, or through a phone.
Visual voicemail is available for your mobile phone, and voicemails can be searched and sorted with ease
Call forwarding to Gizmo Project SIP number
Make a call from any of your phones with a simple click

Currently the service is only in the private Beta stage, and is available by invitation only. Therefore, if you are interested in trying out the service, you must first receive an invitation from GrandCentral or a user in order to sign up. Once a new user receives an invitation, they can create an account on their website, and choose a central phone number. The service is free during the private beta.
GrandCentral takes care of all costs associated with forwarded calls from a number to a destination number outside of the local calling area of a GC number. In addition, it absorbs costs that occur when a user's "call from" number and destination entry are not considered local numbers on the PSTN. Users are provided with free credits during the private beta. However, once the service is publicly launched, the user will be able to recharge their account by using their credit card or other payment methods.

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