AT&T finds Google Voice blocking calls to convent

AT&T is keeping up the heat on Google by sending more letters to the FCC. In the latest bit of correspondence, they've done a few experiments with Google Voice to see what phone calls are being blocked. The company found that Google blocked calls placed to a convent, the campaign offices of Representative Collin Peterson of Minnesota and some rural-based small businesses. Hardly the adult-talk lines and free conference calling services that Google had claimed were the reasons for the call blocking.

AT&T originally sent a letter to the FCC urging a probe of the Google Voice services, saying Google's calling app had an unfair advantage by refusing to terminate calls to rural areas--a practice telecom service providers are barred from doing by the FCC. Google has claimed that the Google Voice service is a web application, and thus is not required to abide by rules for telecom services.

For more:
- read the Wall Street Journal article [1]

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