Google to limit call blocking on Google Voice

Oct 29th 2009
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Google in a response to the FCC on Wednesday said it has discovered a method to curb some of the rural call blocking that prompted a formal investigation into its Google Voice service. The search firm’s new technology is much more specific and now only blocks less than 100 phone numbers, which Google now says are limited to “traffic pumping” sites like questionable conference call services that cost the company a disproportionately high amount in connection charges….

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