Pols Want FCC to Investigate Google Voice's Call Blocking
Still in beta....
If google was:
-Charging something for this service
-Marketing this product as "final" version
-offering service that wasn't dependent on a third party (either traditional telecom or internet)
they might have a case.
As it stands, it is these local telecoms charging insane disconnect fees.
The solution? Google should allow calls to these areas but consider them "international calls" and fund the disconnect fees that way. either that, or those companies should waive (or drop) the disconnect fees for GV users.
Forcing google to have calls go through to these companies (which means they will have to start charging for the service, or chan...
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Although I think it's a huge waste of time given other things that could be worked on, I see nothing wrong with them investigating Google Voice to see if it is any violation of FCC rules or laws for that matter.
But I guess what really bothers me is how folks on these sites are so quick to jump on AT&T and side with someone else. AT&T is a company that makes money not off of handsets, but the service they provide. If it were me, I wouldn't allow anything on my network that competed directly with my number one money maker. I don't care if it benefited customers at all, cell phon...
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"Man, if I didn't work for AT&T I'd probably take advantage of this one lol..."
What this is really about is the small group of rural phone exchanges that take advantage of a law intended to promote access to rural customers... Not sure AT&T is the villain here, but that doesn't they aren't in other areas.
Now that they've caved to avoid investigation and have 'embraced' network neutrality, they're already starting to whine about the amount of abuse their dodgy network is taking from '3% of iPhone users'... Is it any wonder that > 90% of iPhone users love their devices, but > 50% hate At$T's network and service, and would leave, if an alternate carrier was available? In the larger picture, what this all about ...
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Regards,
M
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