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With one hand caught in the cookie jar trying to keep Google Voice off the iPhone, AT&T shot a public letter to the FCC this weekend urging them to apply net-neutrality rules to Google Voice service — essentially implying that Google ought to be treated as a voice carrier just like AT&T. From the letter:
“The Commission cannot, through inaction or otherwise, give Google a special privilege to play by its own rules while the rest of the industry, including those who compete with Google, must instead adhere to Commission regulations.”
The comparison — perhaps obviously — just doesn’t fly, and I think this was a huge blunder by AT&T. The elephant in AT&T’s room the past few weeks has been that if GV manages to get on a few million more handsets, Google will become a real and direct competitor for the carrier’s customers, even though (and probably because) they’re not a traditional carrier like AT&T. I think the next few months will not be pretty for AT&T, and they just got caught trying to move the goalposts.
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