The official Google, AT&T and Apple replies to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are out. The FCC got interested in why iPhone applications catalogue lacks Google Voice, free IT software.
The telecommunications service Google Voice lets one use a single forwarding telephone number to all the user's phones, free SMS and cheap long-distant and abroad calls. VoIP allows Google Voice's users to pay not according to calling service rates but according to lower-priced data exchange rates.
At the end of July 2009 all the Google Voice's references were banned from the Apple Store and 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. Having signed a two-year contract with AT&T, iPhone users get the cost of an iPhone back. In case clients cut down their spending, the income of the provider will be decreased.
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 ban as well. While at the same time the company accepted the fact that it had had consultations with Apple on the effect some applications might have on AT&T's telecommunication capacity.
A special agreement between Apple and AT&T forbids Apple to design VoIP-based programs working over 2G and 3G nets provided by AT&T without special permission of the latter. Earlier AT&T and Apple succeeded in reducing Skype's options in iPhones. So, now Skype is available 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 confessed that it was its own decision to take away Google Voice from Apple Store and claimed that this software would not be missing forever.
The corporation says that it will keep studying this application that substitutes some basic options of the iPhone including calls, SMS and voice mail services. Also, Apple is worried about the fact that personal data are kept on Google's servers. The corporation wants to be sure that this information will be used rightly.
AT&T and Apple state that Google Voice is available for iPhone users via Safari web browser without installation.
Google has sent two replies to the FCC with public and confidential information subsequently. The company preferred to hide the details of its talks with Apple and AT&T 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 working on Google Android might become iPhone's competitors.
Moreover, Chrome operation system which Google's working on might be as successful as Mac OS X.
The telecommunications service Google Voice lets one use a single forwarding telephone number to all the user's phones, free SMS and cheap long-distant and abroad calls. VoIP allows Google Voice's users to pay not according to calling service rates but according to lower-priced data exchange rates.
At the end of July 2009 all the Google Voice's references were banned from the Apple Store and 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. Having signed a two-year contract with AT&T, iPhone users get the cost of an iPhone back. In case clients cut down their spending, the income of the provider will be decreased.
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 ban as well. While at the same time the company accepted the fact that it had had consultations with Apple on the effect some applications might have on AT&T's telecommunication capacity.
A special agreement between Apple and AT&T forbids Apple to design VoIP-based programs working over 2G and 3G nets provided by AT&T without special permission of the latter. Earlier AT&T and Apple succeeded in reducing Skype's options in iPhones. So, now Skype is available 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 confessed that it was its own decision to take away Google Voice from Apple Store and claimed that this software would not be missing forever.
The corporation says that it will keep studying this application that substitutes some basic options of the iPhone including calls, SMS and voice mail services. Also, Apple is worried about the fact that personal data are kept on Google's servers. The corporation wants to be sure that this information will be used rightly.
AT&T and Apple state that Google Voice is available for iPhone users via Safari web browser without installation.
Google has sent two replies to the FCC with public and confidential information subsequently. The company preferred to hide the details of its talks with Apple and AT&T 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 working on Google Android might become iPhone's competitors.
Moreover, Chrome operation system which Google's working on might be as successful as Mac OS X.
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