A friend of mine visiting from Dallas last night was telling me about GrandCentral, a service that allows you register a phone number and have any calls to that number forwarded to your real number. My friend has a season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks and sells his tickets. He sells the tickets through craigslist and doesn't want to reveal his real phone number. GrandCentral work much like I the spam management tools I wrote about recently.
I just went to sign up for GrandCentral and see that the service is available in Iowa:
When trying to sign up however using the area code I am told that no numbers are available:
I reason to myself that it's not a big deal since Iowa has a few area codes, so I'll see what numbers are available by selecting the state from the provided drop down. Can you spot the problem:
Iowa is not in the list. So how does an Iowan sign up for GrandCentral?
This blog contains the thoughts and discoveries of Tim Barcz, a technologist with a interests in computer programming technologies.