Apple denies its role in restricting Google’s VoIP Technology…

Google Voice, a free Internet service that uses VoIP technology to link phone numbers together was relaunched as Google Voice on March 11, 2009
It provides new features, like voicemail transcriptions and SMS managing, centralized voicemail and indexable, automated voicemail transcription, accessible by PC or phone making it easier to connect with people, and to manage those connections.Google provides this application to a number of mobile platforms, including the iPhone.
Earlier this week, we learned that Apple had suddenly begun to pull third party iPhone applications for Google Voice, saying that they “duplicated” some of the iPhone’s functionality. According to reports, Apple has even blocked Google’s official Google Voice application itself from the App Store.
Apple had also rejected Google’s own official Google Voice application submitted six weeks prior, sparking a din of complaints from developers and users over the arbitrary and possibly anti-competitive restrictions being imposed by Apple.
According to a Google Spokesperson, they have doubts over their old friend AT&T and Apple over this restriction. They are doing all this to protect their sacred cash cow. But it looks like the government isn’t going to stand for that any longer.
Federal Communications Commission is looking into Apple’s the matter, and has sent letters to AT&T, Apple, and Google to find out what’s going on.
In response, AT&T Inc. told federal regulators on Friday that it played "no role" in Apple Inc.'s decision to keep Google Inc.'s Google Voice Internet phone application off the iPhone while Apple said that it hasn't rejected the software.
Instead, Apple told the FCC that it is still studying the Google Voice application, but said it has concerns about how Google's application puts the Google brand on Apple's device.
"The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone's distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone's core mobile telephone functionality.”