The crux of AT&T’s recent complaint to the FCC regarding Google Voice was that Google — not being subject to the common carrier rules that help facilitate fair, open telephone networks — was blocking customers from accessing numbers managed by rural carriers that charged higher connection fees, thereby giving it a leg up on its Old Guard competition by saving cash in ways AT&T and others are legally barred from doing. Google’s hitting back today, not by agreeing to submit to common carrier rules (come on now, don’t be ridiculous) but by saying in a statement to the FCC that it’s now blocking calls to “fewer than 100″ numbers in total now that it has finished implementing new back-end capabilities that allow it to single out specific numbers rather than entire exchanges.
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Google says it’s now blocking ‘fewer than 100′ numbers in Google Voice