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Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice
ZuchinniOne writes "The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article about the likely reasons that AT&T and Apple killed the Google Voice application. 'With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone — office, home or cellular — rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls. Domestic calls and texting are free, and international calls to Europe are two cents a minute. In other words, a unified voice system, something a real phone company should have offered years ago.'"
No one seems to get that the application does nothing without a phone and network. Until Google has their own network that they are willing to give these services out on I would say it is legitimate for AT&T to not want to deal with all the bandwidth that this app would use. The list is awesome and I would love to have it but you have to be reasonable. You can't expect a company to take a huge hit on bandwidth with zero compensation from the customer. As someone who doesn't use tons of bandwidth, I want to be charged a fair rate and not have it inflated because every dipshit wants to use VoIP with a million features rather than placing a phone call on their phone. Contrary to everyone's belief bandwidth costs money and apps like this, if everyone was using them, would eat up most of it. Sure phone companies are screwing us, but have a little bit of knowledge of what you are asking the phone company to offer for free before demanding it. If they go bankrupt you won't be able to use the app anymore anyway or the rates for a standard plan are going to skyrocket even further so they can cover all these apps.