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You make a lot of assumptions there. The only salient point is that Google does not run the network they just forward calls. If they decide they don't want to f

by zaphar 17y ago

You make a lot of assumptions there. The only salient point is that Google does not run the network they just forward calls. If they decide they don't want to forward calls to certain numbers that is there perogative. It's a whole lot different than the people running the wires and networks cutting of portions of the network from access to their users. When AT&T disables access to those numbers No one with AT&T service can call those networks. The same is not true for GV. The reasons for AT&T's restrictions do not apply and arguably should not apply.

gojomo 17y ago
GV does far more than forward calls -- they offer a lot of the same value-added services AT&T charges for. And very importantly: GV includes a dialable number. People in (for example) those Iowa counties can call GV numbers, but those GV numbers can't return those calls. Maybe Google's Vint Cerf can explain how that asymmetry improves the End-to-End Connectivity of the phone and data networks involved? If AT&T blocked dialing to those counties, AT&T customers would have to pay another long-distance provider more to complete their calls. Since Google blocks dialing those counties, GV customers have to... pay another long-distance provider more to complete those calls. Exactly equivalent, in practice.
- sahaj 17y ago
  Mr Mohr, GV has been only around for less than a year. Please give them some time to grow some legs and feet to stand on. Perhaps the limitation is not cost at this point, but the infrastructure. Again, they are still in private beta, meaning they are not claiming to be a legitimate service providing service to everyone, unlike A&T or Sprint or Verizon. I've lived in a lot of different places in my life, and AT&T certainly does not provide DSL or a phone line in all of the United States.

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You make a lot of assumptions there. The only salient point is that Google does not run the network they just forward calls. If they decide they don't want to f

by zaphar 17y ago

gojomo 17y ago
GV does far more than forward calls -- they offer a lot of the same value-added services AT&T charges for. And very importantly: GV includes a dialable number. People in (for example) those Iowa counties can call GV numbers, but those GV numbers can't return those calls. Maybe Google's Vint Cerf can explain how that asymmetry improves the End-to-End Connectivity of the phone and data networks involved? If AT&T blocked dialing to those counties, AT&T customers would have to pay another long-distance provider more to complete their calls. Since Google blocks dialing those counties, GV customers have to... pay another long-distance provider more to complete those calls. Exactly equivalent, in practice.
- sahaj 17y ago
  Mr Mohr, GV has been only around for less than a year. Please give them some time to grow some legs and feet to stand on. Perhaps the limitation is not cost at this point, but the infrastructure. Again, they are still in private beta, meaning they are not claiming to be a legitimate service providing service to everyone, unlike A&T or Sprint or Verizon. I've lived in a lot of different places in my life, and AT&T certainly does not provide DSL or a phone line in all of the United States.