Google Voice Fine-Tunes Call-Blocking Tactics (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – Google told the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday that it has developed an engineering work-around that allows it to switch off selected telephone numbers to prevent Google Voice users from calling adult chat lines and other high-cost “traffic-pumping” services. The search giant noted that such services disproportionately raise Google’s operating costs for the free service, which is currently available by invitation only.

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Google Voice Fine-Tunes Call-Blocking Tactics
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This article was posted by Tech Reporter Mike Wendland. It has been archieved under Today’s Tech News.

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