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{"id":327,"date":"2010-08-24T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyfrenchgeek.com\/2010\/08\/google-imaginary-open-letter-to-fcc-%e2%80%93-one-year-later\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T00:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T04:08:30","slug":"google-imaginary-open-letter-to-fcc-%e2%80%93-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nyfrenchgeek.com\/2010\/08\/google-imaginary-open-letter-to-fcc-%e2%80%93-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Imaginary Open Letter to FCC \u2013 One year later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Google announced the integration of Google Voice into Gmail<\/a> allowing users to place and receive phone calls from their computer from any place in the world to the US for FREE.<\/p>\n

Since the acquisition of GrandCentral<\/a> by Google, Craig Walker<\/a> and his team have been working hard to make the world a better place for communication.<\/p>\n

One of the targets is to make Google Voice accessible to all users (meaning outside the scope of Google) with an horizontal approach ranging from Mobile phones to Web based applications and device dependent applications as well. Google Voice has been available for Blackberry and Android<\/a> phones for over a year. But they never could make it to the iPhone. The application went live for a few hours before Apple’s executives decided to remove<\/a> it from the app store raising a Valley drama on Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n

Google asked the FCC<\/a> to look into Apple’s motivation, Apple replied<\/a>, FCC sent a few letters<\/a>, AT&T denied any implications…bottom line: nothing happened. In a world where technology is evolving around time, FCC has failed to do its job.<\/p>\n

Worse, I believe FCC integrity is challenged by its dependance to regulatory fees mainly paid by carriers and manufacturers e.g. AT&T and Apple. I see an urgent need to reform FCC processes to adapt to 21st century technology pace.<\/p>\n

Here is an imaginary open letter from Google to FCC regarding Apple’s Rejection of the Google Voice for iPhone Application.<\/p>\n

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