Net neutrality, rural phone service on the table as Atkins takes on Google Voice (access required)

by Peter Bartz-Gallagher
Published: October 13,2009
Time posted: 5:00 pm
Tags: Google, Joe Atkins, net neutrality

Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) released a statement concerning Google's Voice service, a web technology that redirects a single phone number to any number of phones—work, mobile, or home. Atkins' issue is that Google won't connect certain phonecalls to rural Minnesota, in order to avoid higher connection fees with rural phone providers. Atkins, the Chair ...


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