http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/01/bad-phone-fees/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/01/bad-phone-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-4743 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.

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