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FCC’s Now Investigating Apple For Google Voice Shenanigans

By Jason Chen on August 1, 2009 at 9:54 AM

YES. The FCC is now looking into Apple’s chickenshit shenanigans with Google Voice, asking whether AT&T was involved, why it was rejected and what the hell’s going on with this Google Voice thing.

The request is part of a broader-ranging inquiry by the commission on exclusive deals between cell phone carriers and handset manufacturers for hot phones. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Thursday that the FCC wants to look into rural areas where customers can’t buy the latest fancy phones because of such exclusive deals.

This doesn’t signal, by any means, that Google Voice is going to get onto the iPhone, but it does put some pressure onto Apple to not pull moves like this in the future. [WSJ]

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  • Shane
    August 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM

    Does this mean it will open the way for a class action against apples monopoly on the app store? Does this mean we might be able to actually download apps, legally, from somewhere else??

    Probably not, it’s not microsoft after all.

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    • matt
      August 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM

      agreed, apple are too lovable, for god only knows what reason… damn all those iDiots out there for supporting them.

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  • Bennish
    August 3, 2009 at 10:02 AM

    Well said Shane.

    We all know His Steveness is above reproach.

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