The official Google, AT&T and Apple statements to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are eventually made public. The government officials got interested in why iPhone applications catalogue lacks Google Voice, free IT software.

The telecommunications service Google Voice lets one use a single number forwarding all the user’s phones, free SMS and cheap long-distant and abroad calls. VoIP allows Google Voice’s users to pay not for calling services but for cheaper data exchange.

At the end of July 2009 all the Google Voice’s references were from the Apple Store and the internet catalogue of iPhone apps.

Gawker claims that the FCC representatives and journalists got suspicious that AT&T might have forced Apple to make this decision. Customers who signed a two-year contract with AT&T get the cost an iPhone back from this telephony provider. In case clients cut down their spending, the income of the provider will be decreased.

AT&T stated, however, that it has nothing to do with the choosing of applications for the Apple Store and with Google Voice’s misfortune as well. While at the same time the company confessed that it had had consultations with Apple on the effect some applications might have on AT&T’s telecommunication capacity.

A special agreement between Apple and AT&T prohibits Apple to produce VoIP-based programs for 2G and 3G nets provided by AT&T without special permission of the latter. Earlier AT&T and Apple succeeded in reducing Skype’s options in iPhones. So, now one can access Skype over Wi-Fi exclusively. The same thing was required from mobile television services.

Google has similarly restricted Skype’s usage in relation to VoIP in Google Android applications.

Apple acknowledged that it was its own decision to take away Google Voice from Apple Store and claimed that this application would not be missing for long.

The company claims that it will keep investigating this application that substitutes some crucial features of the iPhone including calls, SMS and voice mail services. Also, Apple is concerned with clients’ personal data being stored on Google’s servers. The corporation wants to be sure that this information will be stored in safety.

AT&T and Apple note that iPhone clients are able to use Google Voice via Safari web browser without installing the application.

Google has sent two responds to the FCC with public and confidential information subsequently. The corporation preferred to keep in secret the details of the discussions held between Apple, AT&T and Google on Google Voice’s usage in iPhones.

Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt has recently left Apple’s Board of Directors due to the misunderstandings. Both companies have already started to compete in the sphere of web browsers, while smartphones based on Google Android might become iPhone’s competitors.

What’s more, Google creating Chrome operational system which can successfully compete with Mac OS X and take some of its users.

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