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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:39PM (#1808895)
That's not something the carrier can disable. The Google Voice APK is a side loadable app. The only way VZW/ATT could kill it is if they sniffed the traffic from EVERY SINGLE PHONE and tried to block access to the SIP endpoint.

... which isn't feasible or possible on the scale you'd be talking about.

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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by henryci on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:01PM (#1808975)
There are plenty of vendors who would kill for the chance to sell a box to Verizon that blocked all traffic on the ports that this would use.
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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by adambyrtek on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @07:32PM (#1809283)
Which would certainly reignite the whole net neutrality debate.
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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by brisance on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @10:54PM (#1809759)
Or the carriers can simply choose not to preinstall Gingerbread on the new phones.
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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by e1ven on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @08:12PM (#1809391)
Several phones don't allow non-market apps.
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Re:Details Of Android 3.0 Gingerbread – SIP Support, Gtalk V... by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @09:54PM (#1809637)
By several do you mean 2 from AT&T? And that can easily accept sideloaded apps regardless of AT&T's desires? yeah...
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