http://blogs.computerworld.com/14892/fc ... ogle_voice
This stuff is at least highly interesting to somebody like me who's in the telecommunication industry. But, what I really like about this whole mess is that Google is exposing some dirty little secrets about how the phone company is ran and why the model is broken, especially with the overly expensive rural LECs.
Some of this rural bullshit has reached critical mass with services like freeconferencecall.com, who's "free" calls are costing the carriers so much money, they are actually BLOCKING the entire rural block. Of course, they can't officially block the numbers due to FCC regs, but the traffic going to these areas are so congested that the traffic is naturally blocking the calls anyway. They simply do not have enough trunk lines, and some carriers are starting to throw some lawsuits because of the increased costs. (A service in Iowa caused AT&T's rural bill for that area to go from $2000/mo to two million a month!)
Either Congress has to step in at some point, or the FCC needs to make their own decisions on how to change these fucked up models.
This stuff is at least highly interesting to somebody like me who's in the telecommunication industry. But, what I really like about this whole mess is that Google is exposing some dirty little secrets about how the phone company is ran and why the model is broken, especially with the overly expensive rural LECs.
Some of this rural bullshit has reached critical mass with services like freeconferencecall.com, who's "free" calls are costing the carriers so much money, they are actually BLOCKING the entire rural block. Of course, they can't officially block the numbers due to FCC regs, but the traffic going to these areas are so congested that the traffic is naturally blocking the calls anyway. They simply do not have enough trunk lines, and some carriers are starting to throw some lawsuits because of the increased costs. (A service in Iowa caused AT&T's rural bill for that area to go from $2000/mo to two million a month!)
Either Congress has to step in at some point, or the FCC needs to make their own decisions on how to change these fucked up models.
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Robert: The subjunctive?
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Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
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