Verizon Wireless' throttling of a fire department that uses its data services has been submitted as evidence in a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate federal net neutrality rules.
"County Fire has experienced throttling by its ISP, Verizon," Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden wrote in a declaration. "This throttling has had a significant impact on our ability to provide emergency services. Verizon imposed these limitations despite being informed that throttling was actively impeding County Fire's ability to provide crisis-response and essential emergency services."
Bowden's declaration was submitted in an addendum to a brief filed by 22 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District, and the California Public Utilities Commission. The government agencies are seeking to overturn the recent repeal of net neutrality rules in a lawsuit they filed against the Federal Communications Commission in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Throttling affected response to wildfire
"The Internet has become an essential tool in providing fire and emergency response, particularly for events like large fires which require the rapid deployment and organization of thousands of personnel and hundreds of fire engines, aircraft, and bulldozers," Bowden wrote.
Santa Clara Fire paid Verizon for "unlimited" data but suffered from heavy throttling until the department paid Verizon more, according to Bowden's declaration and emails between the fire department and Verizon that were submitted as evidence.
Why don't you go post somewhere more your style like facebook or myspace?
Ethan Sanders
With this and the whole censorship "purge", it would seem that someone is trying hard to manufacture consent to reinstate Net Neutrality. I was telling you people earlier the government will never give up control of something unless they had something else worse planned.
Jayden Cooper
It isn't. Verison is owned by AT&T, which is run by Randall L. Stephenson.
Logan Cruz
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Isaac Gray
Who is Ivan Seidenberg?
Ryder Hill
evil corp
Charles Lee
welcome to califailia.
Parker Thompson
ajit pai said there would be no throttling if net neutrality was gone. this must be fake news.
Nicholas Thomas
The demonic ratKIKES are trying to geo-engineer forest fires so as to herd the white goyim cattle (who naturally is drawn to forested areas) into the urbanized ZOG RFID slave cattle cities
I'd humbly pray Him to pick up the pace, thank you..
Austin Gutierrez
Ajit Pai approves.
Dominic Hill
"We made a mistake in how we communicated with our customer about the terms of its plan," Verizon said. "Like all customers, fire departments choose service plans that are best for them. This customer purchased a government contract plan for a high-speed wireless data allotment at a set monthly cost. Under this plan, users get an unlimited amount of data but speeds are reduced when they exceed their allotment until the next billing cycle."
Verizon also said that the Santa Clara "situation has nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court."
Samuel Hall
ITT: kikes memory holing the general public into thinking net neutrality had anything to do with wireless isps throttling data.
… so you can make them download less data than they otherwise would have. then it's really not unlimited. It's less than unlimited. same thing, different trick.
…said the company who's former employee, ajit pai, took away net neutrality.
Brody Jackson
this is fucking bullshit
Matthew Bennett
Responsible for deaths.
Gabriel Clark
Based Verizon doing their part to help the wildfire cleanse commiefornia
Jonathan Ross
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Chase Peterson
corporations run the government tho
Josiah Moore
yes, that's why we need more government.
t. californian
Wyatt Anderson
Maybe idiots should actually bother to read the fine print instead of just assuming things based on its name.
William Wright
>Despite Santa Clara Fire paying for 'unlimited' data, they were hit with the issue of heavy throttling until they upgraded to a new plan that was more than twice what they were already paying in the middle of a public safety emergency, and despite communicating that with the service provider.
Some would consider the complete inability to read comprehensively as grounds for dismissal as a moron.
Assuming that they had the "Unlimited" plan, Verizon says at their website: "If you've already used 22 GB on a particular line during your current billing cycle, and are on a cell site that is congested at that moment, your download may be temporarily queued behind other Verizon Wireless customers, which may result in slower download speeds relative to another Verizon Wireless customer's experience on the same cell site at that moment."
They don't make it obvious that this means "lol 200kbps."
