The official Google, AT&T and Apple replies to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are eventually made public. Google Voice's disappearance from the Apple Store got the government officials suspicious in the case.
Google Voice is a telecommunications service allowing using a single forwarding telephone number to all the user's phones, free SMS and international and long-distant calls with cheap rates. VoIP lets Google Voice users pay not for calling services but for lower-priced data exchange.
At the end of July 2009 Apple banned all the Google Voice's links and references from the Apple Store and from the on-line catalogue of iPhone applications.
Gawker claims that the FCC representatives and journalists got suspicious that AT&T might have forced Apple to arrive at this decision. Customers who signed a two-year contract with AT&T get the cost an iPhone back from this telephony provider. Reduction in clients' spending might reduce the income of the provider.
AT&T , however, refused to admit the fact that it has something to do with the choice of applications for the Apple Store and with Google Voice's disappearance as well. While at the same time the company accepted the fact that it had had consultations with Apple concerning some application's effect on the communications capacity of AT&T's net services.
According to a special agreement, Apple is forbidden to produce any VoIP-based programs working over 2G and 3G nets provided by AT&T without permission of the latter. Earlier AT&T and Apple succeeded in reducing Skype's options in iPhones. So, at the moment one can access Skype over Wi-Fi exclusively. The same thing was required from mobile television services.
Google has similarly restricted Skype's usage in relation to VoIP in Google Android applications.
Apple acknowledged that it was its own decision to ban Google Voice from Apple Store and stated that this program would not be missing for long.
The corporation states that it will keep studying this application that substitutes some crucial features of the iPhone including calls, SMS and voice mail services. Also, Apple is concerned with users' personal data being stored on Google's servers. The company wants to assure itself that this information will be used rightly.
AT&T and Apple claim that Google Voice is available for iPhone users via Safari web browser without installation.
Google has sent two statements to the FCC , one of which was confidential, while another one was public. The company preferred to keep in secret the details of the discussions held between Apple, AT&T and Google on Google Voice's usage in iPhones.
Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt has recently left Apple's Board of Directors due to the conflict. Both corporations have already become competitors in the web browsers business, while smartphones based on Google Android might become iPhone's competitors.
Besides, Chrome operation system which Google's working on might be as successful as Mac OS X.
Google Voice is a telecommunications service allowing using a single forwarding telephone number to all the user's phones, free SMS and international and long-distant calls with cheap rates. VoIP lets Google Voice users pay not for calling services but for lower-priced data exchange.
At the end of July 2009 Apple banned all the Google Voice's links and references from the Apple Store and from the on-line catalogue of iPhone applications.
Gawker claims that the FCC representatives and journalists got suspicious that AT&T might have forced Apple to arrive at this decision. Customers who signed a two-year contract with AT&T get the cost an iPhone back from this telephony provider. Reduction in clients' spending might reduce the income of the provider.
AT&T , however, refused to admit the fact that it has something to do with the choice of applications for the Apple Store and with Google Voice's disappearance as well. While at the same time the company accepted the fact that it had had consultations with Apple concerning some application's effect on the communications capacity of AT&T's net services.
According to a special agreement, Apple is forbidden to produce any VoIP-based programs working over 2G and 3G nets provided by AT&T without permission of the latter. Earlier AT&T and Apple succeeded in reducing Skype's options in iPhones. So, at the moment one can access Skype over Wi-Fi exclusively. The same thing was required from mobile television services.
Google has similarly restricted Skype's usage in relation to VoIP in Google Android applications.
Apple acknowledged that it was its own decision to ban Google Voice from Apple Store and stated that this program would not be missing for long.
The corporation states that it will keep studying this application that substitutes some crucial features of the iPhone including calls, SMS and voice mail services. Also, Apple is concerned with users' personal data being stored on Google's servers. The company wants to assure itself that this information will be used rightly.
AT&T and Apple claim that Google Voice is available for iPhone users via Safari web browser without installation.
Google has sent two statements to the FCC , one of which was confidential, while another one was public. The company preferred to keep in secret the details of the discussions held between Apple, AT&T and Google on Google Voice's usage in iPhones.
Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt has recently left Apple's Board of Directors due to the conflict. Both corporations have already become competitors in the web browsers business, while smartphones based on Google Android might become iPhone's competitors.
Besides, Chrome operation system which Google's working on might be as successful as Mac OS X.
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