GrandCentral goes dead
This isn’t good, folks. GrandCentral is one of Google’s most innovative offerings. Their "One Number for Life" service provides you with a single phone number that you can route to any combination of land lines, cell phones, and more. It’s a fantastic way to provide people with a single number to contact you without giving out your personal cell number, and it provides an incredible level of flexibility in regards to voicemail routing, caller ID, and other features. All of this is great…when it works. GrandCentral has been down for several hours now, which is a terrible situation to be in for a company looking serve as the front end for all of your telephony needs. Granted, the service is currently in beta, but there’s still no excuse for a systemic outage when the service you provide is so critical for day to day activities. There’s currently no word on when GrandCentral might go back up, and all calls placed to a GrandCentral number are currently being unconditionally terminated. Nice job, Google. Anyone out there relying on GrandCentral as their primary number? We feel for you.
UPDATE: The service appears to be back online and fully functional. Still no word, however, about the cause of the outage.
Listen you begging dinks. There are no invites possible from people who have the service. They DISABLED it. Stop looking pathetic. You WON’T get one because it CAN’T be done anymore. Geeze.
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Everything seems beta with them. You do get what you pay for in most instances. their concept is good, and their are reliable co’s out there that offer it and it’s affordable (and reliable). check out phonefusion one or phone.com or ringcentral all good companies
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Its down again tonight, May 20th, 2008 here in Southern California. My theory is that it is related to American Idol voting. Either cheaters trying to vote many times with one call, so it calls forward to 3 or 5 or whatever and it crashed their website or ATT/Google took it down. Josh is indicating that there is web info. about problems with their domain expiring. I suppose it could be propigating to a new domain and it takes time to do so?
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Can someone send me an invite (waltalva@gmail.com). I thought invites were closed but i keep on reading about some folks signing up recently.
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