Wow, a whole $1 million. They’ll notice that for like seven seconds.
They won’t notice, as fines are already in the cost projections.
The depressing fact this is already in their calculations really suggests fines should be vary based on a percentage of the company’s profits, not a set number for all.
If you do something illegal, and the result is a fixed fine, it’s only “illegal” for poor people. Rich people dgaf if they have to pay fine/ticket.
Never profits. Must be revenue.
Companies have ways of looking like they don’t make a profit, especially when it comes to filing taxes.
“Oh, we created a subsidiary in Ireland and, gosh darn, they charged us a gagillion dollars for this pen. We actually have a loss this year.”
Beat
“Stimulus please!”
Or it shouldn’t be a fine, but criminal prosecution for the executives responsible.
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And have been passed on to the consumer in doing so.
No they won’t, but now they where deemed at fault, let the civil litigation begin. As this is the American way.
Because it was minor and clearly an oversight. But I’m sure you could run an entire phone network with 100% uptime. I mean Verizon can only get to 99.95. Just garbage tier.
It was also the second time it happened. It was a mistake, but one that really shouldn’t have happened. And it was minor in terms of how long it was down, but not having access to 911 is potentially a major issue.
People are just sick of companies not being held responsible for repeated incompetence which often comes from cost cutting measures.
A million dollars for a localized and rapidly fixed mistake, even being a serious issue, seems appropriate. Everyone here is out for blood.
Verizon, “Stop, it tickles!”
Yup, the fine needs to be much higher. People could have died because of this.
The entire point of fines is that they’re punitive. They’re supposed to HURT. To make you change your behavior and not do the Bad Thing again.
If fines don’t even make a dent in your daily profits, then laws become nothing more than suggestions. They become just a cost of doing business.
Oh no! Not a million dollars! I what ever will they do?
How about a 100*million*million dollars? Put them out of business and T-Mobile will be frightened enough to not try this shit any longer.
If they can slap fines with whatever amounts, why don’t they just ask enough to finance the country and make the company bankrupt? It’s not like the CEO is indispensable
1M ? only? they should let costumers not pay for a year! +1Billion $ People gonna die because Verizon decided to drop 911 calls? You have to be very stupid.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Verizon a little over a million dollars for failing to route 911 calls during a cellular outage.
The outage occurred on December 21, 2022, killing calls to Verizon’s Voice over LTE (VoLTE) operations in six southeastern states for an hour and 44 minutes.
The FCC says this mistake should have been caught before the outage happened, but claims Verizon employees weren’t enforcing proper oversight like they were supposed to be doing.
The plan details several practices that Verizon should ideally have already implemented, such as providing a checklist for employees to follow, testing proposed network changes before they’re applied, and of course removing buggy security policies when they’re discovered.
“Ensuring ultra-reliable connectivity, especially when callers need to reach emergency services, is a cornerstone of our company,” Verizon told The Register.
We understand the critical importance of maintaining a robust and reliable 911 network, and we’re committed to ensuring that our customers can always rely on our services in times of need."
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