Russell_
join:2006-04-06 | Grand Central down?
Can someone else confirm - the web-site is down and making calls to your GC number seem to go to dead air?
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Russell |
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MartyT
join:2004-09-03
Georgetown, SC | Yes on both counts. Website down, dead air calls. Google runs this outfit? Scared of that! |
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mazilo
From Mazilo
Premium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA | reply to Russell_
Yup. How can Google compete with Yahoo if its GC keeps crashing on a weekly basis? |
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soccerdad62
Premium
join:2005-04-16
Saline, MI | reply to Russell_
Same here; both web site and phone (the one I put on my business card since it worked so well  ) |
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Rao
@mindspring.com | reply to Russell_
Same here,it's down. |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs:
| reply to Russell_
I have been using grand central for about a year now and I don't remember anytime that it was down. But I am not a heavy user so it doesn't effect me much. I just don't want to lose it out of beta.
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teledatatech
Premium
join:2001-11-23
Bucyrus, OH
clubs: | reply to Russell_
Figures, I just started telling family and friends to start calling me on the Grandcentral number instead.
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laserjobs
Premium
join:2004-05-02
Las Vegas, NV
 ·Cox HSI
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The Consumerist just posted about this
»consumerist.com/379184/general-o···dcentral
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | still down. And I switched from netzero's PrivatePhone and now this ones down. GREEEEEEEEEEEEAT |
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dbmaven
There's no shortage
Premium,Mod
join:1999-10-26
Sty in Sky
clubs: | Unreal. I just started notifying people to use my GC number - I deliberately waited several months just to see how reliable it was.
Timing is everything - and in this case mine sucks.... |
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Russell_
join:2006-04-06 | Remember it's beta and you're not paying a penny for it.
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Russell |
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Lumumba
@mnet-online.de | Get a number at brring.com and forward it to your number at ipkall.com and have that forward it to your ata. At least that gets you free incoming, not to mention $ if you get enough incoming calls. |
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dbmaven
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join:1999-10-26
Sty in Sky
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| reply to Russell_
said by Russell_  :Remember it's beta and you're not paying a penny for it. I'm not complaining about them - I'm complaining about my timing ! 
As others have noted, there is one complaint - Beta or not, they should at the very least post something somewhere indicating WTF is going on. When you've signed up thousands of people, and have been pushing the service, you have at least some responsibility to those "beta testers" to let them know the problem status, the expected resolution, and the timing. "Beta" doesn't get a free pass for extended outages - just ask people who've been using MagicJack....same issue - functions or services are down and there's no communication. |
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myvoip07
join:2006-04-29
USA | reply to Russell_
The website is up now i haven't tried to call yet. |
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dbmaven
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Premium,Mod
join:1999-10-26
Sty in Sky
clubs: | Indeed - the site is back up, and I tried a call and it went through. |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs:
| sites up and i am able to log in. phone number is also up. My call logs dont reflect the calls i made it it while it was down.
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mazilo
From Mazilo
Premium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
| reply to Lumumba
said by Lumumba :
Get a number at brring.com and forward it to your number at ipkall.com and have that forward it to your ata. If a lot of Brring users requesting it to support SIP URI as well as PayPal payment for redemption, I am sure Brring will comply. This will make IVR works better and the calls will have less latencies. |
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nitzan
Premium,VIP
join:2008-02-27
·ViaTalk
·Comcast
| reply to Russell_
I wonder if it's possible to port numbers out of GC... I'd imagine that's a yes, but who knows. I just hope that once they start charging/advertising or shut down users will have enough time to port their numbers elsewhere...
(Who knows what Google will do with it, but one thing they're probably NOT going to do with it is let it sit and collect dust and bills for too long.)
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soitgoes2
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join:2005-01-14
·Future Nine Corpor..
| said by nitzan :I wonder if it's possible to port numbers out of GC... I'd imagine that's a yes, but who knows. I just hope that once they start charging/advertising or shut down users will have enough time to port their numbers elsewhere... They've claimed that basic forwarding services would remain free once they started charging. Making calls, etc. would be charged. Of course, who knows what they will actually do. |
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Russell_
join:2006-04-06
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said by nitzan :I wonder if it's possible to port numbers out of GC... I'd imagine that's a yes, but who knows. I just hope that once they start charging/advertising or shut down users will have enough time to port their numbers elsewhere... (Who knows what Google will do with it, but one thing they're probably NOT going to do with it is let it sit and collect dust and bills for too long.) From their FAQ:
"If you want to move to another service provider and take your GrandCentral number with you, we'll be as helpful as possible to let you take your number with you."
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Russell |
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