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Having looked over Google's explanation of its Google Voice call blocking practices to the Federal Communications Commission, it's clear to me that U.S. telecommunications regulations need to be thrown out and re-written from the ground up. Why does Google block certain Google Voice calls? To prevent price gouging. Some rural carriers were charging Google as much as 39 cents a minute for connecting Google Voice calls. Google's telecom and media counsel Richard Whitt spends much of the letter arguing that Google Voice is an information service and not a telecommunication service. Whitt's argument no doubt passes legal muster but it fails the common sense test. There's not really a practical difference between an information service and a telecommunications service. The distinctions have regulatory meaning but they fade as information services and telecommunication services converge. Read more -here-
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