A friend just emailed us this and I just signed up. Pretty good so far

Grand Central's message:

If you haven't heard of GrandCentral already, it is a service that lets you pick a new phone number from virtually anywhere in the US for FREE.

Integrate all of your existing phones and voicemail boxes into one number that never changes.

GrandCentral gives you total control over your calls:
- Personalize Greetings by caller or by group
- Listen in from any of your phones as callers leave you voicemail messages
- Record any received call at any time with the press of a button
- Switch phones mid-call, seamlessly, between any of your phones
- Block annoying callers or telemarketers with Phone-SPAM Filters

For more information, visit www.grandcentral.com

Thats pretty cool!!! We might have to look into that. Keep us posted on how well it works!!

Hope you guys have been doing well!!

This seems like a great cool service. What is the fee for it?

Its free for now.

Here's more from Grand Central's Blog:

We started GrandCentral because we wanted to create a service that puts users in control of their voice communications and not the other way around. As you have discovered, with GrandCentral you get all of your phone calls through just one number that never changes and you can link and ring up to six phones to ring when somebody calls you. But that’s just the start. You can set different rules for each caller (some ring all your phones, other can go straight to voicemail), create personal voicemail greetings for each of your callers, and even check your voicemail on the web with all of your messages in just one inbox. We’ll even save your messages for as long as you want.

Have you ever tried to save a message on your cell phone but it gets deleted after a few weeks? Or have you wished you could hear your voicemail messages while they are being left like you used to be able to do on your old home answering machine? Have you ever been on a call on your cell but wished you could switch it to your desk or home phone? How about having a filter to weed out unwanted telemarketer calls automatically? With GrandCentral you are in control and do all of this…and this is just the beginning. As part of Google we’ll be able to create even more unique features to let you control your calls the way you want.

Many of you probably have questions about what happens to the service now that we’re a part of Google. We’ve created a FAQ–which will answer most of your questions, but a couple of highlights:

Our priority now is to ensure that our current beta users continue to have a great user experience. While we scale the service, we are moving to an invitation-only model for new users. If you’re a registered user today, you can invite five of your friends to join. If you’re a new user–don’t worry–you can Reserve Your Number today, and we’ll let you know when it’s available. We plan to issue lots of invites as quickly as possible, subject to capacity, to those that have reserved their number, so do sign up quickly.

If you’re a user today–here’s the good news: GrandCentral will continue to remain entirely free as we work with Google to add capacity, work out any kinks, fix bugs, and add a ton more great features. We hope you continue to using the service and send us feedback about anything we can do to improve it.Thanks for your support so far.

We’ll always work to earn it.

Craig Walker & Vincent Paquet

I went to sign up and it looks like they are just taking reservations right now.

And one ring tone to rule them all.

John, you actually made a funny TGIF!!