Yeah, interestingly enough, one "richest man in history" was the guy who ran a fire service and "extorted" fire victims for money at the last second when they had an actual fire; it would almost look like turnabout if the FD did that to Verizon here. "Oh, yeah, see, you weren't on the full-service fire plan; that's extra. See, our charter says we can withhold service if we judge there to be too much risk in fighting the fire, and gosh darnit, it sure seems risky today..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_t...

Verizon already pays for these services through taxes, and the government is not liable for damage to Verizon's property resulting from a wildfire, so why would extra money change hands upon such damage?

Your comment is glib and cute, but it really is a baseless fantasy when confronted with facts.

Well, so too does the FD. But they didn't get it. Even Verizon's language says, "During times of congestion, your traffic may be slowed (but only after 22GB in a month)".

And yet their traffic was slowed to 30kbps (which, lets face it, isn't slowed, but effectively halted), permanently. Unless Verizon wants to claim that their best of breed, "least congested" network (their words) was congested at 2am, 4am, etc...