Verizon Endangered The Public With Their Greed

2,621 views · Published 25 August 2018 · 3:38 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: NerdAlert · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Verizon was more concerned with how much money they were making instead of the lives of victims of the California wildfires AND the firefighters trying to protect them. Kim Horcher and Holly Amos talk about the actual threat to public safety Verizon's greed is. Let us know your thoughts on this story in the comments below.  

“Just days after the massive Mendocino Complex Fire ignited in Northern California, fire officials were getting desperate in their emails to Verizon Wireless. As Santa Clara County firefighters mobilized, they discovered that Internet access had slowed to a crawl on the vehicle they were using to coordinate their response.”

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640815074/verizon-throttled-firefighters-data-as-mendocino-wildfire-raged-fire-chief-says

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