The Ultimate in Free Call Forwarding Services - One Number to Ring Them All  
by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. - 5 Comments, Last updated 09/21/2009

This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their “one number to ring them all” service completely free.

Here’s how it works. You sign up with Grand Central, and you choose from one of their bank of telephone numbers that are local to you. You can then have that number forward to as many as six different telephone numbers - at once!

That means that, if you choose, for example, when I call you (using your Grand Central number), it will ring on your house phone, office phone, your cell phone, and your … uh… whatever other phone you have.

And, if you choose not to pick up any of your phones, Grand Central provides free voicemail, as well.

But wait, there’s more!

For example, you can customize your voicemail options! You can lump people into “groups”, and have custom voicemail messages for each group. For example, for friends, your voicemail message might say “Hey, whuzzup? You know what to do at the tone,” while for business colleagues it might say “I can’t come to the telephone right now, please leave a message at the tone.” If you receive telemarketing calls, you can have your telemarketing group voicemail message say “Hey you wankers, I don’t call you during dinner, so why are you bothering me?”

Even cooler, you can customize your voicemail messages individually, so that when your mother-in-law calls, you can have it say “I can’t come to the phone right now because I’m devoting all of my free time to making my spouse as happy as I can.”

You get the idea.

And check this out! You can screen your callers as they are leaving voicemail, and pick up the call if you like!

And, you can transfer calls from one phone to another, right in the middle of the call! Did you pick up the call on your cell phone, but now you are at the office and want to transfer it to your office line? You can do that!

How cool is that?

And it’s all free.

Really.

So check it out, at GrandCentral.com.