Whoa, - we were just sent AT & T response to the FCC inquiry into waiver of Google Apps voice from the iPhone app store and Ma Bell does not pull any strokes: in accordance with the letter, AT & T “, has no role in decision Apple does not agree with Google Voice application. This puts the ball pretty solidly Apple to court, but it does not close the door on the AT & T participated in the App Store approval shenanigans completely, because the letter also states: “AT & T has had discussions with Apple in a small number of applications that have been submitted to Apple for review where, as described below, there are fears that the application can lead to significant network. ” Not only, in which CBS and MobiTV killing Final Four square ability to stream video over 3G, but also explains what happened with the SlingPlayer Mobile - we can see that the FCC says about it.

Update: Here come Google and Apple, in response, as well! We are digesting all as fast as we can, we’ll do it semi-liveblog-style after the break to grab a frosty and dive in.

Update 2: Okay, so we read all three filings, and broke them after the break. Our main takeaway? Apple’s being pretty hypocritical, arguing on the one hand, that the iPhone is at the forefront of the mobile revolution, and then said, iPhone users can not understand how Google Voice differs from the iPhone functionality built on the other side. All your client paradigm-busting, or dreamers, they are not very smart at all, Apple - you have to choose one. In AT & T, well, it just seems that worry about their network first and foremost, and while we think it is ridiculous that it strengthens the VoIP and SlingPlayer ban on iPhone, rather than, say, Windows Mobile devices, we can understand why the carrier would insist these provisions in the contract is difficult. In the end, we just hoped for FCC forces all participants to be more open and transparent, that they are doing, and they are considered to do - Apple does not necessarily exaggerating when he said this is totally new problem, and whatever happens next will set a precedent for long time.

Gallery: ATT in FCC filing

Photos: Google in the FCC filing

Apple: (view replies)

She says she did not refused Google Voice and continues to study it. Apple is in the Google changes the voice “on the iPhone distinctive user experience” and “off Apple for Visual Voicemail.” “The iPhone user with all contacts database are transferred to Google servers, and We still do not receive any assurances from Google, that these data will be used only in appropriate ways. “[No Mac OS X to do so when it syncs the address book with Google? What's the matter? - Ed.] Mobile D . B., GVDialer and VoiceCentral all the same questions. She says it “covers new ground and do what has never been done before, and that” many of the issues we are faced with difficult and new. ” Apple does not consult with the AT & T on whether to approve the Google Voice, and Apple alone makes the final decision on whether to approve the iPhone Apps, although a part of AT & T / Apple contract prohibits Apple from the approval of VoIP applications that run on the cell network.
“Most of the review process is consumed with the quality problems and software errors.” SlingPlayer Mobile was originally dismissed because the reorientation of TV signals on iPhone through AT & T in the network is prohibited AT & T Customer Terms of Service. [It is pretty much the opposite, that AT & T promised to us. - Ed.] There are more than 40-day training iPhone app reviewers, and at least two referees to go over every square. There is an App Store review, the Executive Board that meets weekly to determine procedures and policy in the review process, as well as a review of the applications that led to the Council, because they “raise new and complex issues.” [Hi, Phil Schiller!] Apple receives 8500 new applications and updates in a week, and he claims that only 20 percent were not approved as originally submitted. AT & T: (view replies)

AT & T can not play any role in consideration of Apple or Google Voice related applications. AT & T has the technical talks with Apple about the impact of certain types of applications on its network - it was concerned about streaming audio applications like Pandora, and video applications like MobiTV in the Final Four square. Apple has changed as streaming audio to work to Pandora, but the video feature was removed from the Final Four square. AT & T and Apple to discuss the issue of certain types of applications that are compatible with Apple / AT & T agreement and AT & T Wireless common terms of service. In the Apple / AT & T prohibited transaction applications that enable VoIP calls from AT & T network, but AT & T plans to take “fresh look” at the authorization of VoIP applications that run on 3G.
In the iPhone will receive the largest subsidies AT & T never provided to a wireless phone. AT & T prohibits television redirection of SlingPlayer Mobile on the “quality service”, since “Video applications typically do not make any attempt to minimize the frame for the content.” [Again, that explains the refusal of SlingPlayer Mobile, but it's more of what the change AT & T informed the company in the past. - Ed.] There were three cases in which AT & T has discovered he is OK and went to Apple: Apple twice sent AT & T directly with developers, and the third time, Apple addressed the issue himself. In all three cases seems to be rather favorable. AT & T has developed several applications for the iPhone, including the rest find “called Have2P. Google: (show answers)

Well, this is interesting: Google in response to “What reasons were given for denying the voice of Google?” Fully redacted. Given Apple openly offered their own version of this story, you must wonder what is going on here. Google Voice-still available for iPhone users on the Internet, but Google knows the best experience through the app. Google does not screen or reject the “Android market applications based on the content and functionality.” There, in an automated verification system in place. And this is seriously it - Google does not talk much. Seeing as it is mostly pained by all this

Yes, we’re pretty much just peeved at Apple suddenly removed all traces of Google Voice of app store, but now it seems to have drawn the ire of the Federal Communications Commission, as well as. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Agency has sent three letters, one for Apple, AT & T, and Google. For the last company, she requested information on the Google Voice sq whether previous Google Apps have been approved for the store (he has, but it is another interesting story). In Cupertino, please phone the manufacturer to explain itself in a sudden exorcism and what part, if any, AT & T had in that decision. The report contains no direct indication that in a letter to the carrier said, but we can imagine this is similar to what Apple has received, plus some doodles at the end of a stick figure releasing a Exasperated sigh. In his statement today, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said he “has a mission to strengthen the competitive wireless market, protection and empowerment of consumers, as well as encouraging innovation and investment.” Hey Julius, you are at it, you can take care of Skype and Slingbox for us too? Thank you.