Google Voice is a threat to AT&T and every other potential carrier for the iPhone. Maybe AT&T didn't really have anything directly to do with GV being yanked but it sure isn't going to make carriers around the world happy to have the iphone on their network if it can go around their revenue generating functions.<p>I'd love to have the iPhone on Verizon but how much will they want the iPhone if it is a trojan horse that makes them lose MMS,SMS and international long distance revenue?
Of course Google Voice is a threat to AT&T. But in terms of the Google Voice app being rejected on the iPhone, even if AT&T applied pressure, in the end Apple should bear a lot of the blame for this. The final decision was Apple's.
Yup! I didn't renew my AT&T contract in favor of Google Voice. Whenever I find an ~iTouch/Android (Zii EGG!) portable that does what I want over WiFi I'll happily avoid larcenous SMS fees.<p>I'd say that's a good threat to AT&T.