House of Representatives want FCC to regulate Google Voice

I have an idea. I think everybody who believes in big government regulation should move to Canada or some EU country. They all believe in what you do, and I like a country without all that regulation. I’ll take the USA since it’s more closely aligned with my beliefs and you all can move to Canada or Europe since they’re set up the way you like. I can live happy, and so can you. Problem solved.

Google has the right to block anyone they want as long as it remain free. AT&T has no right to block anyone because it’s a pay service.

@ Jerry Marcus you are one of those dumb asses WTF are you talking. what ever happens idiots like you are ready first thing to make it Obama’s fault no matter what it is. get some brain maybe and don’t change the subject here.

@Brak,

Is SenseUI on the Mytouch3G?

@Alen,

I’m glad someone else was intelligent enough to see this. Kind of like you lie down in the mud and, I’ll walk on your back and keep my boots clean. NOT!!

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Google: Free Service that can block numbers(not an actual phone service)

Skype: Can be free, didn’t allow me to call in for American Idol even though I did have a subscription and still do plus SkypeOut credit.(Virtual phone service)

AT&T, Verizon: Actual Phone companies that pass charges on to customers because you have a MONTHLY BILL.

This is nonsense and AT&T vs. Google is apples to oranges. My friends are struggling without health insurance for crying out loud.

@Cingulair
Noticed you did say “branded” handsets. My mistake.

“My friends are struggling without health insurance for crying out loud.”

Well tell them to go out and get a job and quit trying to leech off of my dime.

See what happens when you go off topic.

OR they can go to Iraq or Afghanistan and have universal healthcare.

“My friends are struggling without health insurance for crying out loud.”

Why should I pay for your friends health insurance they aren’t the only ones struggling…..Why are we so willing to create a welfare country?

Back on topic

If Google wants to provide phone service free or not then they need to be subject to the same rules as everyone else, if you can’t take the heat then get out of the kitchen.

“Google Voice is free? Really? Not to Google it’s not. They make plenty of money from it and intend to make more.”

Exactly as anyone wondered how Google can continue to give so much free services and continue to make profits like they do.

“No such thing as a free ride.”

So true.

Really Darwin? Dumb AND wrong?

“Two weeks after AT&T asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate what it considered to be anti-competitive behavior as it relates to Google Voice, the commission penned a letter to Google asking it to answer questions about the service.

“In light of pending commission proceedings regarding concern about so-called ‘access stimulation,’ the commission’s prohibition on call blocking by carriers, as well as the commission’s interest in ensuring that ‘broadband networks are widely deployed, open, affordable, and accessible to all consumers,’ we are interested in gathering facts that can provide a more complete understanding of this situation,” Sharon Gillett, chief of the FCC’s wireline bureau, wrote to Google Washington telecom and media counsel Richard Whitt.

The FCC also wants Google to explain how Google Voice applies to telecom laws like the Communications Act of 1934, whether it competes with any traditional telecom services, and whether it has any contracts with third-party telecom providers.

AT&T did not have an official statement about Friday’s inquiry, and referred only to its September 25 letter to the FCC about Google Voice.

In that letter, AT&T argued that Google’s blocking was ironic given its support for net neutrality, but Google dismissed the idea that the issue is related to net neutrality. “This is about outdated carrier compensation rules that are fundamentally broken and in need of repair by the FCC,” Whitt concluded.”
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2354051,00.asp#

Wow, so wait… let me think here… if my statement that this all goes back to net neutrality is dumb, well, then At&t writing a letter to the FCC that Google violates net neutrality is dumb as well, right?

Is the true bitch fest behind all this about net neturality? Of course not, but its At&t’s dumb ass that used it as a starting point. At&t cried net neutrality, so let’s address the net neutrality which really is irrelevant in this case. Call me dumb all you want, but I didn’t bring up net neutrality, At&t did.

The illegal call blocking law referred to really involves long distance carriers and local carriers… i.e. the blocking of certain calls because the calls come from certain carriers. No one has actually specified or defined what “call blocking” by Google is (show me where Google is being accused of blocking calls from a specific provider). My ASSUMPTION (yes, I know that means nothing really), is that At&t used Google’s options to block calls from telemarketers as an excuse to say Google violated the No Call Blocking laws… you can say the assumption is dumb all you want, but again I’ll point out that At&t and the FCC only talk about the Blocking law but don’t actually identify or say HOW its being violated.

And if any of you don’t believe that every ISP in America is pissed off about net neutrality laws, then you’re all living in a naive little world, aren’t you?

Nothing says, “I have no clue what Google Voice really is” more than the people who are siding w/ At&t and the FCC.

All that’s becoming apparent these days is how much money ALL these companies make by doing jack shit. Alen wants to shit all over google about all the same things people were bitching about At&t 2 weeks ago. The humourous part is how some of you champion for At&t when the minute they win, they’ll bend you over and won’t stop till you bleed. What company in America DOESN’T do that? So you’re all tools for defending any corporate entity. keep drinking the kool-aid.

Good, couldn’t happen to a nicer company.

Let me get this straight, parts of the country have been decimated by illegal immigration, and these old fart are worried about Google blocking certain numbers?? These is one of the reasons folks in other countries laugh at Americans. China, Japan, and parts of Africa have a modern infrastructure, AMerica hasn’t progressed since the 50′s.

I see some commenting “why should we pay extra for the uninsured?” You’re already paying for members of congress and the senate, they get 100% coverage as well as their dependents. You’re also paying for the 20,000,000+ illegals who have no insurance.

This is what happens when AT&T sicks it’s lobbyists on the government to smack Google around a little. Payback for Google blaming AT&T and Apple for Google Voice rejection thus resulting in an FCC inquiry. Especially when Google has a phone service that isn’t complying with standard telco laws like umm you know AT&T who is regulated and who doesn’t like that Google is getting away with stuff will pretending to be the “perfect angel”.

AT&T to Google: “Bit(h didn’t I tell you not to bring heat on us over this Google Voice bullsh1t? I told you that was that muthafu– Steve Jobs and his people. You don’t listen, see we could all get paid, but see you wanna be playin’ games and shi1t fu(kin up my paper. You got these feds breathin’ down our neck. You played your cards b1tch now we gonna play ours, don’t me see you walkin’ down the street either.”

AT&T to FCC: “Umm I want to make an anonymous complaint about Google blocking calls to rural areas with Google Voice, mmhm, yes, my grandmother was sick and I couldn’t even call her…mmmhm. O.K. thank you”.

AT&T to lobbyists: “Yeah, we’re ready to make that move, handle that sh1t my nuh. Yeah we got about 20 in our back pocket, mmhm, yeah. Aight I want the heat comin’ down on them like yesterday you got me? Aight bet.”