AT&T's top lobbyists tell FCC to punish Google Voice

It's been a few weeks since Google told the Federal Communications Commission that its voice application is still blocking calls, just fewer of them. So what does the FCC plan to do? That's what AT&T wants to know and the company sent its top lobbyists to the agency this week to talk to Edward Lazarus, chief of staff to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski about the apparent violation of phone calling rules. At the meeting, Cicconi also reiterated several objections from AT&T to an agency proposal for net neutrality rules that would prohibit the discrimination of content over the Web. Specifically, Cicconi said one portion of the proposed open-Internet rules was too strict. By "imposing a non-discrimination standard that does not contain some form of reasonableness limitation would be more restrictive than the prohibition against "unreasonable discrimination" adopted for monopoly-era telephone companies in the Communications Act of 1934.