Google Voice has gone from blocking a decent swath of phone numbers—ranging from sex chat lines to nuns to some simply rural digits—to around 100.
https://gizmodo.com/now-at-t-wants-the-fcc-to-investigate-google-voice-5368114
The FCC, being all about neutrality nowadays, is probably still going to flick Google in the balls over it, though Google says they “have good reason to believe [those numbers] are engaged in…schemes” that jack up carrier costs.
https://gizmodo.com/why-the-fccs-got-at-t-and-verizon-scared-shitless-5377347
Given that Google’s clearly happy to give something away for free that costs a lot of money to make happen, would they really even consider charging Google Voice like they vaguely threatened? Nahhh. [Washington Post, WSJ]
https://gizmodo.com/google-and-the-deadly-power-of-data-5391966
