One Number

One of the articles in rediff caught my attention. The article was about a US based company - GrandCentral who are in the beta testing phase of its simple but nice to have service of integrating all your contact numbers to a single number.

Not sure how this service is going to hit in the market since I smell some kind of privacy loss. I feel instead of distributing your new number from this provider to everyone, just integrate existing phone numbers with this service. Once you get a call to any of your numbers and you aren't there to pick up, it should get diverted to this number. The recipient can then be notified about the voice message which can be accessed from anywhere.

Let us wait how this service will evolve when it hits the market.