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Grand Central - puts you in charge of all your phone calls
If you dread the evening onslaught of telemarketer calls as well as the monotone response of "please take me off your call list," (on a good day -- we can't print what we say on a bad day -- ), a much welcome and highly rated phone service is here to help. Grand Central puts you back in charge of all your phones, (work, home, mobile, etc.) as well as all those pesky phone messages.
First you simplify. Grand Central provides you with a phone number for life which links all of your existing phones and consolidates voicemail into one mailbox. When someone calls this number, you can pick up the call from any of your existing phones. All of your work, home, mobile voicemail goes into one mailbox which you can access from your phones, the internet or email.
Now, for the good part. You can send all the annoying telemarketing calls to a spam folder. B'bye! Even better, you can choose a setting called "not in service" which will play the detested and jarring three note alert, followed by, "we're sorry, the phone number you dialed is not in service." HaHa!
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Below are some other cool features from Grand Central:
- Check your messages by phone, email, or online
- Keep all your messages online for eternity
- Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
- Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
- Click-to-dial from your address book
- Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
- Turn your Mp3s into the ring tones your callers hear
- Forward, download, and add notes to your messages
