AT&T Says Google Voice Violates Net Neutrality Principles
Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 26/09/2009 20:56
AT&T is playing a "gotcha" with Google. The big phone company filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission Friday saying the Google Voice calling system violates the commission's network neutrality principles.
At issue is Google's decision not to connect Google Voice customers to certain conference calling and other lines because of what it says are excessive access charges by the providers of those lines. AT&T, which is required to connect its telephones to all lines, says Google is discriminating against certain uses of its network, a no-no in the network neutrality world.
To read this report in The New York Times in full, see:
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/att-says-google-voice-violates-net-neutrality-principles/
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in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-42716120090925
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techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/09/att-blasts-google-in-new-fcc-l.php
AT&T looks to flip net rules debate on Google
AT&T Inc said any new "net neutrality" rules imposed by U.S. regulators need to apply to Web companies like Google Inc as much as to phone companies to ensure a level playing field.
In a letter Friday to the head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau, the biggest U.S. telephone company argued that Google would have an unfair advantage if its Voice service is not subject to the same rules proposed by the FCC on phone operators.
in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-42716120090926
