Hey everyone I have a reader who sent me the following comment about Grand Central and I need some help. I have no idea how to respond to the reader in this situation so any advice would be welcome.

GrandCentral is a great idea and I had an invite but was unable to activate my phone number.

To activate, you go to a specific page on their website. They call your number while displaying a two-digit code on your screen.

When you answer the phone, you enter the two-digit code into the phone.

But I am using a dialup connection on a single phone line, so when GC calls, my phone is busy.

How am I supposed to activate it?

I responded as follows:

Do you have a cell phone that you could have it sent to? Or how about going to the library (or doing it at work?) where you will have the separate lines?

I used a cellphone so I did not have your issue.

This was not a good solution because then the reader came back with this comment:

I don’t have a cell phone and don’t have internet access at work. I don’t see how it can be done at the library because there’s no phone there to key the two-digit code into.
When I set up my Grand Central number I used my cellphone as the number to call. This reader does not have a cell phone…so does anyone have any ideas as to how this person can get a Grand Central number set up?

Any ideas Jag? Baz? Clever Dude?