When you move, change jobs or get a cell phone, you have to let everyone you care about know your new phone number to stay connected. The hassle of updating your phone number for personal or business purposes has been going on for decades and is now being addressed by GrandCentral.

In its Beta stage and recently acquired by Internet giant Google, GrandCentral offers users One Number for Life. Through this one telephone number, people can reach you on all your phones. The founders of GrandCentral, Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, recognized the value of having a telephone number that is tied to YOU rather than to a phone or location. Because the GrandCentral service is still in its Beta stage, you need to be invited to experience the service. There is a link to provide your information and have the opportunity to use the GrandCentral service when it becomes public.

GrandCentral offers a myriad of useful phone services to streamline staying connected and communicating with others. You have one number that rings all your phones an one voicemail box for all your messages that you can view online. Visual voicemail is available on your cell phone. Other services provided through GrandCentral include saving messages for life, forwarding messages to others, personalizing your voicemail greetings, making calls from any of your phone from your address book with just one click, listening to callers before you pick up, screening calls, blocking calls, switching phones in the middle of a call and much more.

I am eager to try the GrandCentral service and signed up to be informed when it goes public. Until then, I am doomed to keep track of my cell phone, business phone and personal phone separately.

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