Google Voice lets users route all of their phone calls through a Google number, giving them cheap overseas calls, text translation of voicemail, per contact call routing rules, phone recording and free text messaging, among other features.
In July, it was reported that Apple had rejected the app from its iTunes App Store, on the grounds that the app duplicated core features on the iPhone.
Apple has since claimed that it had not rejected the proposal, and the app was still in fact under review.
However, the US media regulator put the same question to Google and received a very different answer, which was revealed this morning when the search engine giant allowed a version of the document it submitted to the FCC to be made public.
Google claims the proposal was rejected outright, and is not being studied by Apple as claimed.
In the document, Google said: "Apple's representative informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejected because Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone.
"The Apple representative indicated that the company did not want applications that could potentially replace such functionality."
Yet, despite the publication of this document, Apple is sticking to its guns, and insists the app has not been rejected.
An Apple spokeswoman told : "Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google."
Neither side has shown signs of backing down but surely both sides can't be right?
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