UNLIMITED CALLING PLANS CAUSE LARGE TELCOS TO DISCOURAGE CALLS, CONFERENCE PROVIDER SAYS
The nation's largest telcos are trying to dictate to their customers who they can call when they protest calls to free conferencing and other voice services that largely contract with rural incumbent local exchange carriers to provide their offerings, the president of FreeConferenceCall.com said today.
Dave Erickson's Statement Regarding the Granting of a Temporary Restraining Order which Prevents the Iowa Utilities Board from Seizing Phone Numbers from a Local Carrier.
Learn more about it by reading this Ex Parte letter filed with the FCC.
Look at some of last week's headlines: 'Google Says it Will Limit Call Blocking', 'Google Defends, Scales Back Call Blocking' and 'Google Tells FCC it's still Blocking Calls, but fewer of them'
The story was everywhere. In every major news outlet. And there was news there alright but it wasn't that Google was going to "reduce" the number calls it was blocking. After all, Google did not say how many calls they were blocking in the first place.
Re: Google Call Blocking, Traffic Pumping
Google says: Whoops sorry FCC, we fixed that problem we didn't create. Our intelligent engineers found a work around back at the lab! We are blocking less than 100 phone numbers now (hmmm how many were you blocking before 101, 102?)