That’s why I suggested it as a personal call solution, not a business call solution. For me, I forward my cell phone to it, so that I keep owning my number, but still get most of the benefits of the solution without any exposure of number lock-in. Granted, I live a life surrounded by phones, so I can afford such luxury. Using Grand Central for more than one person would be totally inappropriate.

But still, Grand Central isn’t for everybody or everything. Big market out there – I happen to love what they’ve done.

Thomas

What people need to realise is that having a central service with anyone apart from your own control ‘ties’ you to that vendor.

Perfect example was a company started up here in NY who in their second year became a client of mine.

The Australian CEO had no idea that when their USA number was set up by a previous employee it was tied to that voip provider and even though the service was terrible (not grandcentral btw) changing to a different vendor also came with about $2,000 of printing costs brochures/cards plus associated web domain changes.

Cheers,
Dean
http://www.cognation.net