http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/01/bad-phone-fees/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/01/bad-phone-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-4743 Kevin Fields Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:05:30 +0000 http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/?p=648#comment-4743 The problem is that Google IS NOT "taking on" anything. They are illegally blocking access to these exchanges in order to avoid paying access fees. This is a tactic that AT&T, Verizon, and many other phone providers have tried for years - and failed - because the FCC has ruled that they cannot block consumer access to these numbers. Google has not decided to join with AT&T and others to take this on, instead they are trying to hide behind telecoms laws and claiming that they are a data service - the same laws that Vonage and other VoIP providers also tried to use, and also failed. The problem is that Google IS NOT “taking on” anything. They are illegally blocking access to these exchanges in order to avoid paying access fees. This is a tactic that AT&T, Verizon, and many other phone providers have tried for years – and failed – because the FCC has ruled that they cannot block consumer access to these numbers. Google has not decided to join with AT&T and others to take this on, instead they are trying to hide behind telecoms laws and claiming that they are a data service – the same laws that Vonage and other VoIP providers also tried to use, and also failed.

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