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Congress is telling the FCC to investigate how Google Voice may be violating government telecom policies. This comes after AT&T’s publicly-voiced concern that Google, in running its voice service, is not completely neutral with the calls it allows users to make. Google Voice will not allow users to call some rural areas because the connection fees are too high for Google to allow all calls and to maintain the service as free.

Someone Doesn’t Know What Google Voice Is

This is just further proof that Congress is in bed with far too many lobbyists.

The only way one could argue that Google has to abide by policies designed for telecoms would be to very foolishly think that Google Voice is a telecom. Google Voice does not even work without an existing phone line. Users do not pay Google to make calls using the Voice service.

As it does not make any sense for Congress to waist its time doing something so inane, the most likely course events is that AT&T sent lobbyists to Congress to get the government on its side. If any sector of business has enough money, it can convince the …

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