That no one should even listen to AT&T and their crap. Mainly because the blocking of phone numbers has NOTHING to do with net neutrality. Net neutrality addresses the openess of the internet pipe from content provider to user not phone numbers.
For quite some time now we've been approaching the point in which the distinction between "phone numbers" and "the internet pipe" is wholly irrelevant.
Why should data that happens to convey voice be treated differently than any other kind of data? Is this not an example of Google blocking a content provider simply because the content is voice?
Hopefully the end result of all this is that the FCC finally does something about the traffic pumping scam.
Google isn't an ISP. They don't deliver last mile service. Their blocking of numbers doesn't prevent anyone from using those numbers through another service, possibly one provided by their own ISP. NN is all about the ISP to customer connection, not some free service on the internet.
What really needs to happen is the FCC needs to shut down these traffic pumping rural carriers by setting a limit on the amount of money a rural phone company can get from unequal termination fees.
