AT&T: Google Is So Evil, They Even Block Calls toNuns

The AT&T vs. Google Voice debate has get much more interesting / entertaining , thanks to a letter from AT&T to the FCC , loudly trashing Google — and even the FCC themselves , for allowing Google to run rampant . There ’s some serious animosity here .

In the letter , AT&T adumbrate a wad of their specific problems not just with Google Voice but with what they see as lack of regulation of Google as a whole . Their first master point is that Google Voice is n’t just software ( which would n’t be regulated by the FCC ) , but examine as how it connects call between users , it should be seen ( and regulate ) in the same way as typical wireless carrier . They’ve asked for an FCC investigation of GV before , but now we ’re getting some more in - astuteness reasoning and , even better , some smack talk . The salient paragraph :

https://gizmodo.com/can-google-voice-really-block-calls-to-some-numbers-th-5378394

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But Google Voice is far more than just a software software . Rather , Google Voice uses telecommunications ( supplied by its wholesale partner Bandwidth.com ) to air part calls between final stage users and it thus unquestionably constitutes “ interstate and extraneous communication by wire or radio ” under the Communications Act , placing it squarely within the Commission ’s jurisdiction . Indeed , Google Voice seem to be a telecommunication service insofar as it channel ordinary telephone call option between client using the public tack telephone connection .

AT&T further contends that if Google is not regulated , they could well employ their position as de facto “ gatekeeper ” of the internet to stuff admittance or visibility to cloud package or sites which they see as competition to their own service :

Indeed , if the Commission can not finish Google from block disfavored telephone cry as Google contends , then how could the Commission ever stop Google from also parry disfavored websites from appearing in the results of its search engine ; or disallow Google from block access to applications that compete with its own email , text edition messaging , cloud computing and other services ; or otherwise prevent Google from ill-use the gatekeeper ascendance it wields over the net ?

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In terms of call blocking , Google does admit to bar sure identification number , which they claim as sex activity lines ( which have a high-pitched toll to connect ) . But AT&T discover that they obstruct more than just sex lines , which if dead on target would make Google ’s position as a proponent of net neutrality less well-founded :

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-they-gotta-block-some-numbers-to-keep-googl-5379740

In fact , Google is stop calls to , among others , an ambulance servicing , church , bank , law firm , machine monger , 24-hour interval watering hole , orchard , wellness clinic , tax readiness service , community kernel , oculus MD , tribal community college , school day , residential consumer , a convent of Benedictine nuns , and the run government agency of a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives .

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AT&T has some smack - down word reserved for the FCC , too . In AT&T ’s view , it is the Commission ’s duty to keep back Google to the same standard to which they believe everyone else has to conform .

And as an agency committed to “ continue a gratis and open cyberspace , ” the Commission should show no hesitation in insure its Internet principles are applied evenhandedly to the “ internet providers , program and service supplier , and capacity providers — include Google — who are expressly capable to them today .

That ’s kind of conventional language , but the subject matter is clear : Oh , snap ! FCC and Google , you done got serve : How dare you show such favouritism ! On the other hand , as TechCrunch guide out , AT&T end the letter by saying they do n’t agree that the FCC should expatiate its position on net neutrality :

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AT&T once again underscore that the principles in the survive net Policy Statement are serving customers well in their current form and there is no sound intellect to radically enlarge and codify those principles .

Basically , AT&T is saying that they do n’t need the FCC to follow change in insurance policy , but if they must , Google better be regulated as much as anyone else .

The whole letter read like whoever drop a line it is modulated but really angry about how everyone ’s on Google ’s side . It does n’t face like AT&T is about to give in and brook Google Voice anytime soon , that ’s for sure . [ TechCrunch ]

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