AT&T Wants FCC to Probe Google Voice
In the end, they have the right!
I'm my opinion (because really, thats all we can post about on this topic), AT&T has just as much right to point at Google as the FCC had (and google) had the right to point at AT&T.
AT&T (and Apple?) didn't want Google Voice. The FCC stepped in and said "Hey, you cant do that". Now AT&T is saying, ok, we allowed it but now, why is Google saying no to some calls?
Thats a very valid question. More so, "IF" some of those calls you cant use Google Voice to make, your able to make without it.
Anyway, my opinion on the matter is; AT&T has the right to do this and should excersise that right. This is America ...
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Versed said:
AT&T and the rest of the lot are far from being angels and are greedy, but so is Google, go ask Chinese Google users about blocked websites! There is no White Knight here. Both are wrong. AT&T/Apple should not have blocked GV, nor should Google be restricting calls.
thank you for pointing that out...
asLeepLessman said:
Someone mentioned "The level playing field". The went as far as to mention that Google has tilted it a little away from AT&T (not necessarily toward Google). If this is true, in anyway, the FCC should get involved and make sure it wasn't tilted too much. After all, that wouldn't be fair.
"[T]ilted too much"? You misconstrue.
Envision that the playing field is tilted at a 60 degree angle toward AT&T. Google Voice tilts it 10 degrees in the opposite direction. The playing field is hardly level; it is still tilted 50 degrees in favor of AT&T.
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If this isn't watched by someone (FCC, AT&T) then the tilting can continue and where is the fairness
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WiWavelength said:
How would that "fairness" compare to the monopoly that AT&T has enjoyed for 100 years?
AJ
really? you say you know so much about telco industries but you say at&t has had a monopoly for 100 years. please show where? carter phone act, doj break up, buyout by sbc? verizon?
i have a feeling that we both hate at&t, but while i can argue their point from a capitalist point of view, you are blinded by ignorance. and if you can school me, please do. i'll gladly accept the public humiliation if there is no rebuttal.
crackberry said:
really? you say you know so much about telco industries but you say at&t has had a monopoly for 100 years. please show where? carter phone act, doj break up, buyout by sbc? verizon?
AT&T became a government sanctioned monopoly in the Kingsbury Commitment of 1913. Hmmm, 1913 - 2009 = 96 years. The monopoly persisted w/ the Communications Act of 1934, which formed the FCC and made AT&T a regulated monopoly. The FCC's 1968 ruling on the Carterfone device effectively ended AT&T's monopoly on end user equipment attached to its network but had no effect on its monopoly on actual service. Similarly, the verdict in the United States v. AT&T, which led to the break up of AT&T in 1984, only repl...
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Seriously - that explains it all.
And Lily Tomlin totally rocks!
WE DONT CARE, WE DONT HAVE TO, WE'RE THE PHONE COMPANY.
rwalford79 said:
WE DONT CARE, WE DONT HAVE TO, WE'RE THE PHONE COMPANY.
You might also enjoy Stephen Colbert's amusingly repetitive account of the insidious recomposition of AT&T:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/att »
Wow, really forward looking, consumer friendly oversight there, Bush administration. What did that imbecile W. say? "Big corporations are really cool. They're big like Texas. Let's see if we can get 'em bigger"???
AJ
I remember the monopoly then and now. I was about 5 or so when the breakup was mandated. Let me tell you, if you think prices are high now, they were high then. The difference however, the inflation price for services in 1984 is just about what service costs today, 25 years later. Why is that?
Monopolies - thats one answer.
I have read everyone's response up to the time of this post and thus far, 95% of the posts are Anti-AT&T filing this complaint.
I'm my opinion (because really, thats all we can post about on this topic), AT&T has just as much right to point at Google as the FCC had (and google) had the right to point at AT&T.
AT&T (and Apple?) didn't want Google Voice. The FCC stepped in and said "Hey, you cant do that". Now AT&T is saying, ok, we allowed it but now, why is Google saying no to some calls?
Thats a very valid question. More so, "IF" some of those calls you cant use Google Voice to make, your able to make without it.
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AT&T has almost NO right actually to even mention anything to Google.
1. Google Voice...
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The FCC did not say "Hey you can't do that." What they did is ask is why Apple denied the Google Voice App? AT&T claimed they had nothing to do with that decision and apple confirmed this AND the Iphone GV app is still not approved nor is the FCC forcing Apple to approve it. In its response Apple maintained that consumers can still use their Iphone to access GV via the web browser on their phones which is also true. So what you are talking about I do not know.
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