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Open thread Aug. 24, 2018

Dan Crawford | August 24, 2018 10:34 am

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  • Denis Drew says:
    August 25, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    Gaius Publius: Verizon Throttled Firefighters’ Data As Mendocino Wildfire Burned — Posted on August 25, 2018
    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/gaius-publius-verizon-throttled-firefighters-data-mendocino-wildfire-burned.html

    “It looks like Verizon, already the greedy face of the death of net neutrality, throttled the data speed of California fire-fighting equipment during a 300-arce wildfire in an attempt to force them to upgrade to a more expensive data plan.

    “During a 300-acre wildfire.”

    “Verizon representatives confirmed the throttling, but rather than restoring us to an essential data transfer speed, they indicated that County Fire would have to switch to a new data plan at more than twice the cost, and they would only remove throttling after we contacted the Department that handles billing and switched to the new data plan,” [Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony] Bowden wrote.

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