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Google Wars: The Death Star Strikes Back

attdeathstar The battle between AT&T and Google is getting hotter, as the telecommunications giant sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday, calling for tighter regulations of the search juggernaut’s Google Voice service.

If you haven’t been keeping up, let us bring you up to speed. Back during the summer, Apple told Google that it couldn’t play with its favorite toy in the whole wide world, the iPhone. Mommy FCC stepped in and asked what was going on. Apple said Google was trying

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AT&T, Under FCC Pressure, Now Allowing VoIP Over 3G for iPhone

att-logo Today AT&T, in a surprise announcement, said it will begin allowing VoIP applications to utilize its 3G network. Before now, VoIP apps such as Vonage and Skype were allowed on Apple’s iPhone, under the condition that they be restricted to Wi-Fi or traditional telephone airtime.

Back in August AT&T admitted, in a letter to the FCC (PDF), to having an agreement with Apple to not create applications that would use their 3G network for VoIP.

It seems odd that

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