Comment on Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week agoIt was a one time event. Granted losing access to emergency services is very bad but they did come forward and admit wrong doing. If this happens a second time they can jump the fine up.
jcarax@beehaw.org 1 week ago
But it’s not the first time. A couple examples:
theverge.com/…/fcc-verizon-att-mobile-carriers-91… arstechnica.com/…/fcc-blasts-verizon-for-911-outa…
My highest upvoted comment on reddit was actually in a thread joking about fees to recoup the fine, suggesting they’d call it a “911 Memorial Fee”.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Ok, I didn’t know that. Yeah they need to get in some more trouble and the regulators should ask way more questions. In the worse case it shouldn’t be uncalled for to revoke there lice she to operate as a mobile carrier