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Killing the landline: a dubious idea

  • January 11th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

A recent Lockergnome post details AT&T’s surprising request to the FCC: setting a date for the sunset of analog landline service. And my take on this may surprise many, but I think this is a mistake. I have noticed a steady decline in the quality of telephone communications ever since the rise of the wireless phone. [ READ MORE ]

Apple’s squabble over Google’s user interface

  • August 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

The Blade has a recent entry on the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The FCC inquired about the rejection to all three companies involved: Apple, Google, and AT&T (which has an exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone in the US market). The interesting part here is the reaction from each company. AT&T denies any [ READ MORE ]

FCC takes aim at Apple and AT&T re: Google Voice app rejection

  • August 6th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

Fred von Lohmann, writing for the EFF Deeplinks blog, reports on the FCC’s investigation regarding the highly dubious and potentially anti-competitive rejection of a Google Voice app for the iPhone. And my not-so-humble opinion, of course, can be summed up thusly: About damn time. Hopefully, a decision on this will be at least useful as some [ READ MORE ]

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