The latest installment in the Google Voice rejection saga involves a letter to the FCC from AT&T's Senior Vice President, Robert W. Quinn, Jr. In his letter, Quinn states that "a level playing field between competitors" is a vision "apparently not shared by one of the most noisome trumpeters of so-called 'net neutrality' regulation, Google, at least when it comes to its own services." Ouch.
The squabble between the two giants seems to keep getting juicier, stemming from Apple's decision to pull all Google Voice enabled apps from the App Store and not approve the official Google Voice app in July.
AT&T's letter today - addressed to Sharon Gillett, Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau for the FCC - said that Google "systematically blocks telephone calls from consumers that use Google Voice to call telephone numbers in certain rural communities." It accuses Google of "flouting the so-called 'fifth principle of non-discrimination' for which Google has so fervently advocated" and Quinn ends his letter by urging "the Commission to level the playing field and order Google to play by the same rules as its competitors."
You can read the entire letter here. Stay tuned for the latest episode of the Google Voice drama and remember: Google Voice is still available via Cydia.
