On September 26, 2009
AT&T Accuses Google Of Violating Net Neutrality
AT&T is trying to play a vicious game of “I know you are, but what am I” with Google, using the Federal Communications Commission as a name-calling playground. In a letter to the FCC, AT&T’s Robert Quinn called Google one of the most noisome trumpeters of so-called “net neutrality” regulation According to AT&T’s screed, Google is in violation of net neutrality rules because its Google Voice application blocks certain services it doesn’t like. One of the principles of net neutrality is that carriers and owners of networks shouldn’t discriminate against other services. Here’s the thing, though: Google isn’t a carrier or a network, and Google Voice is itself nothing but an application. The idea of this spurious claim is not…
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