Talk:GrandCentral

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[edit] Restrictions

Does GrandCentral only operate in the U.S.? On its homepage, only U.S. location are available on the Reserve Now page. --ReCover 20:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they are an American company and are pretty new, so I wouldn't imagine they've had time to expand internationally. But now that they've been acquired by Google that might happen soon. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 01:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More Info

I am looking for more information about how GS reserves the phone numbers on their end. Do they actually pay the local phone company for each number? I am basically wanting more information about the logistics of the company 71.219.240.136 04:07, 17 July 2007 (UTC)matt

[edit] Rates

Is GrandCentral a free service? Do they charge? There is no information on whether this is a free or paid service, and would be very helpful. Anyone know? -Mike Payne (T • C) 04:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

At the moment, they're in Beta and one can only join on invite, like Gmail started out. It is assumed that they'll charge for service or something. 128.252.119.214 19:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I think most of the information on this entry is outdated or wrong. A lot of the information came from an early 2006 article. GC has since been purchased by Google, and I believe they've changed pricing plans (if there will be pricing at all, since Google might have something up their sleeve like tying this into Gmail or their Android mobile platform adventures. 68.4.239.235 (talk) 06:17, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] here is an invite

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click the link. one time use so delete it after youve created an accountb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.33.97 (talk) 18:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I used that invite, so here's a new one: [deleted]
(Where would be a more appropriate place to do this?) Jobarts-Talk 18:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Updates removed - used. 83.251.29.124 (talk) 17:04, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

One way to get invites is to use http://www.grandcentralinvite.com/, I used it and got an invite Justin 07:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interruptions

Some user by the name of Dreadstar is trying to hide reports of a massive service interruption that occurred on April 13th, 2008. It certainly seems relevant to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.54.92.122 (talk) 18:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

No one's trying to hide it. If you can find a good source to back it up, then you're welcome to put it in. But, since you haven't, it's unverified information, which is why it has been removed. Everything needs to be backed up with a source. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 03:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
The interruption is even mentioned on the GrandCentral blog itself, so I don't know how you could consider it unverified information. In any case I have found several website reports on the outage.
GrandCentral Recovers After Weekend Outage - http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/voice/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200471
General Outage Hits GrandCentral - http://consumerist.com/379184/general-outage-hits-grandcentral
GrandCentral Goes Dead - http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/13/grandcentral-goes-dead/
GrandCentral Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead -http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/13/if-you-wanna-be-a-phone-company-you-cant-go-dead/
I could go on and on but you get the idea. If this is acceptable, I am going to reinsert the text into the article with the citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.117.187 (talk) 17:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)