Is Vic There?

Google has announced that it has acquired grandcentral.com - a (USA service) company that manages your voice communications and lets you have one personal phone number for life (I think).

Having a personal phone number, owned by you rather than your provider is of course a great idea if you get all the functionality you need. Wasn’t there a UK personal phone number company sometime ago offering 07000 numbers or something (I’m not up on my phone technology)? Makes alot of sense to me so long as it all works correctly.

I’m guessing that google will want to turn this service into yet another ad platform - maybe they’ll be able to contextualise your voice messages and insert audio ads between them? Privacy issues abound!

Is Vic There? Showing my age a little I suppose. 80’s band Department S