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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by RIMR on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:08PM (#17813847)
>Verizon imposed these limitations despite being informed that throttling was actively impeding County Fire's ability to provide crisis-response and essential emergency services

Interfering with emergency services is a felony. Whoever signed off on throttling them after learning that doing so would inhibit crisis-response ought to be arrested.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by thsowers on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:26PM (#17813986)
> Whoever signed off on throttling them

This was likely the work of an automated system following a set of pre-programmed business logic. However, one would think that this could easily be undone with human intervention and a click of a button

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by whatpad on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:29PM (#17814005)
Armchair grandstanding.

If an EMT asks a bystander for help and he refuses, he did not commit a crime.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by wtallis on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:19PM (#17814350)
The situation with Verizon is more like a case of an EMT asking a bystander to get out of the way, which the bystander absolutely has an obligation to comply with. But it's complicated by the fact that Verizon isn't just a bystander but a company that had an existing contract with the fire department, and had previously been informed that their throttling was causing problems.
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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by FireBeyond on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:42PM (#17814509)
No, but if I as an EMT or paramedic, ask you to get out of my way, and you refuse, you absolutely are committing a crime.
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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by walshemj on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:36PM (#17814471)
Telecoms is CNI its entirely different
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