Home › News ›

Pols Want FCC to Investigate Google Voice's Call Blocking

Oct 8, 2009, 11:39 AM by Eric M. Zeman

A number of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are petitioning the Federal Communication Commission to investigate Google Voice's practice of blocking calls to certain rural areas. Google Voice blocks calls to some 1-900 type services and other rural regions to cut down on expenses. It is illegal for telecom providers to block calls. The lawmakers involved call Google's practice "ill conceived and unfair to our rural constituents." Technically Google Voice is a call-forwarding service, but telecom companies believe it should have to abide by the same set of rules that they have to follow.

Reuters »

Related

iOS 17 Brings Comprehensive Protection Against Unwanted Nude Images

Jun 7, 2023
Apple's forthcoming iOS 17 will include a suite of new options to protect both children and adults from inappropriate and/or unwanted sexual content. The features are a significant expansion of the technology already available via Communication Safety.

Verizon, AT&T Moving Forward with C-Band 5G Launch This Week Over FAA Objection

Jan 2, 2022
Verizon and AT&T this morning refused a request by federal transportation officials to delay this week's planned launch of 5G service in the critical new C Band. [Update: By evening, the two companies agreed to a two-week delay.] The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) insists that the service could potentially interfere with radio altimeters that planes use to measure distance to the ground in poor weather.

FCC Raises Over $22 Billion in Latest Mid-Band 5G Auction

Jan 7, 2022
The FCC's Auction 110 has concluded, with up to 33 bidders paying a total of $22.5 billion for 4,041 licenses out of 4,060 offered. All of the top three national wireless carriers participated in the auction.

FCC To Start Next Mid-Band Auction in July

Mar 1, 2022
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel gave a speech at the MWC trade show in Barcelona today where she announced that the FCC will start Auction 108 for 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum in July of this year. This is the same band 41 that T-Mobile currently uses.

Following C-Band 5G Debacle, FCC Considers Regulating Radio Receiver Performance

Apr 21, 2022
The FCC has launched an official proceeding to investigate how it can best address the issue of radio receiver performance. The FCC has historically regulated radio transmitters, but paid little attention to the technical aspects of radio receivers.

Comments

This forum is closed.

This forum is closed.

Menno

Oct 8, 2009, 12:07 PM

Still in beta....

GV is still in beta, it is essentially a piece of freeware that they are toying with.

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...
(continues)

Azeron

is that these politicians are in AT&T's pocket. Follow the money...

...

Page 1 of 1