In that scenario, says Free World Dialup's Pulver, a carrier could block service and effectively make its own VoIP product the only available option.
Tax regulators who cannot define the service and want to regulate it are striving to block the service in New York and Washington.
So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Makes a Statement on the Sequester
You started your career of service as a community organizer and now we are hearing from people like -- organizations like the CBC is saying rebuilding our economy on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans is something that is simply not acceptable, like the cuts to the Community Service Block Grants, Pell Grants, heating oil assistance, and freezing salaries of federal workers.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget
In the 1980s, the DMA tried unsuccessfully to block the Internal Revenue Service from using a private magazine subscription list to find potential tax cheats.
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The High Court plans to announce in June whether internet service providers should block access to the site.
BBC: Microsoft Windows Messenger blocks The Pirate Bay links
The High Court has ordered the UK's major internet service providers to block three websites offering links to pirated material.
Verizon Wireless offers customers its 4G LTE service on C Block spectrum.
ENGADGET: Verizon to stop blocking tethering apps, settles with FCC for $1.25 million
However Gabon's Communication Minister, Blaise Louembe, said he had acted to block the site before the service launched in order to "protect intellectual property rights".
BBC: Megaupload sequel faces Gabon's suspension order setback
In the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) took action to the courts, obtaining a court order to force internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
Just this week, the English High Court ordered six of the country's Internet service providers to block access to the Swedish site The Pirate Bay on the grounds that it induced its users to infringe copyright.
Specifically, licensees offering service on C Block spectrum "shall not deny, limit, or restrict the ability of their customers to use the devices and applications of their choice on the licensee's C Block network, " subject to narrow exceptions.
ENGADGET: Verizon to stop blocking tethering apps, settles with FCC for $1.25 million
Furthermore, the new regulations -- which, unsurprisingly, have been blessed with the MPAA's seal of approval -- also hold ISPs accountable for the P2P activity of their customers, which could be seen as an incentive for service providers to block what they consider suspicious traffic.
Dutch banks face prosecution if they transfer money to online-gambling firms abroad, and Germany, Italy and Spain are trying to get internet service-providers to block access to gambling websites.
And it has required all hands on deck, said Kevin Lejda, assistant superintendent of the transportation division, who helped develop the plan to restore service using the manual block.
But Congress passed legislation last month to block the planned cuts of the Postal Service, which operates as an independent government agency that is subject to congressional oversight.
Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless leased to Bluegrass Cellular its 700 MHz upper C block wireless spectrum in the Bluegrass Cellular service areas where Verizon Wireless has not constructed a network.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
But Blogger's certainly not the only service of its kind of the block.
Technology has certainly put postal service mail sorters on the chopping block.
The UK's major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing websites, the BBC can reveal.
If you happen to use Google Voice for your primary phone number, the service also makes it easy to block unwanted numbers.
FORBES: How Mobile Carriers Are Making Customers Pay For Safety
Want to order room service from the restaurant down the block?
On top of these social engineering schemes, the transformation of phishing tactics is also occurring on the other end of the industry: Phishers are finding new ways to evade Web registries or Internet service providers that seek out and block malware-infected sites.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Atlanta-based company would also "take steps" to block illicit online drug dealers from using their delivery service.
Pam Fessler provides an overview of the day's events in Washington, and we hear details of the funeral service at the National Cathedral from Melissa Block.
Rather than simply watch the process, Josh walked up and down the street as the contractor worked and sold his service to every other house on the block.
FORBES: With The Right Mentality, Money Really Does Grow On Trees
Finally I figured out how to rip the entire alarm system free of all household electrical wiring, which will probably prompt an expensive service call whenever electricity returns to my block.
Among the products Google just announced it plans to sunset (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading service Google Reader is now on the chopping block.
The carriers will block listed phones from accessing carrier networks for voice and data service.
WSJ: U.S. Government, Carriers Plan a National Database of Stolen Cellphones
Foreclosure filings declined only slightly last year, but the counselling service saved over 4, 000 homes from the auction block.
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