Google finds traffic-pumping work-around

Oct 28th, 2009 - CNET

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Google says it has found a work-around that should allow it to restore access for Google Voice users to most of the local lines it had blocked before AT&T complained about its practices.

AT&T and Google have been engaged in a war of words over Net neutrality and the obscure practice of "traffic-pumping," exchanging letters with the Federal Communications Commission on an almost weekly basis over the past month. Google wants to ensure that broadband Internet providers such as AT&T adhere to the proposed Net neutrality principles, while AT&T wants Google to be held to the same standard as other local telephone service providers.

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