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ItsSprintnotwalk

Sep 25, 2009, 5:26 PM
AT&T does not allow 900 etc call's and no cell phone cann accept prision collect call's... etc... this is what Google Voice is blocking and hey...

S 🤭 ure Gr 🤭 ps AT&T
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ecycled

Sep 25, 2009, 5:32 PM
LOl and how do you know that cell phones can't get prison calls? hmmm
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Azeron

Sep 25, 2009, 5:37 PM
If you had ever worked at a call center you would know it, too. I had a customer threaten to sue because she could not accept the from her boyfriend. Point is: Google is free and excellent. AT&T needs to sit the kc*f down!
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ccareatatt

Sep 26, 2009, 5:03 PM
Cell phones can accept prison calls from a third party vendor.
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crackberry

Sep 25, 2009, 11:49 PM
ItsSprintnotwalk said:
AT&T does not allow 900 etc call's and no cell phone cann accept prision collect call's... etc... this is what Google Voice is blocking and hey...

S 🤭 ure Gr 🤭 ps AT&T

you're wrong. google is blocking numbers to legit area codes in the USA because of the termination cost associated with those calls. some rural carriers charge 11 - 20 cents per call to terminate a call. google doesn't want to pay that. seriously, why are you posting this **** if your dumbass doesn't know what your talking about???????? please give me an intelligent answer? people like you make the issue even worse because you don't know why you are for or against the issue... what calls are google letting t...
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Azeron

Sep 26, 2009, 12:27 PM
There is a difference between a wireless provider which charges for a service and Google which does not.
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Menno

Sep 26, 2009, 1:28 PM
GV lets me call Canada... For free from my cellphone. Please tell me another cell company that allows this (without getting a canada plan)

GV is a free app, it is also a beta app (meaning it is not "commercial ready.")

They offer international calling for a fee (except canada, as listed) who is to say they're not working on a way to build in these insane disconnect fee areas into that international calling pack?

If the app was out of beta, or if they were charging for it, ATT might have a case.

At the moment, it makes about as much sense as their attack on Verizon's 3g ads. They might have a quasi-valid point, but all they are doing is highlighting their own shortcomings.
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crackberry

Sep 26, 2009, 3:28 PM
Menno said:
GV lets me call Canada... For free from my cellphone. Please tell me another cell company that allows this (without getting a canada plan)

GV is a free app, it is also a beta app (meaning it is not "commercial ready.")

They offer international calling for a fee (except canada, as listed) who is to say they're not working on a way to build in these insane disconnect fee areas into that international calling pack?

If the app was out of beta, or if they were charging for it, ATT might have a case.

At the moment, it makes about as much sense as their attack on Verizon's 3g ads. They might have a quasi-valid point, but all they are doing is highlighting their own shortcomings.

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rarodrig26

Sep 28, 2009, 9:47 AM
My thing is this. A) Google Voice is a free app. If ppl aren't happy not being able to call particular numbers, they would be the one's sueing via a class action. But again its free, customers aren't paying google for this service so if they don't like it they can use something else.
B) Google is not a telecom. The fact is they don't have to abide by the same rules as the regular phone companies. And again, nobody is paying for this service, it's free. If you don't like not being able to reach certain numbers then don't use it, if it was that important ppl would be willing to pay.
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crood

Sep 28, 2009, 11:02 AM
Can we get off of this "Google is free" BS. NOTHING is free. Otherwise Google would have been out of business in about 5 minutes. You just pay for it differently.

Google's primary revenue source is advertising. Who pays the advertisers? That's right you do. They pass the cost of advertising with Google on to you.

In many ways, Google's scheme is less fair. After all, their services are built into the cost of what everyone buys, but not everyone uses their services.

If you're using Google Voice, just keep in mind that it's coming out of someone's pocket and people who don't use it are paying higher prices somewhere so you can get something for "free".
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rarodrig26

Sep 28, 2009, 12:17 PM
In the grand scheme of things true, especially if you want to be very technical (which the average consumer is not). However nothing comes out of my bank account when use google to search or make a call, so I consider that free at the end of the day.
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Azeron

Sep 28, 2009, 6:38 PM
Google is absolutely free.
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