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.
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.
Why can’t all cell providers have an agreement where if the user dials 911 or whatever the equivalent is in their country your phone will connect to any network if your provider isn’t currently available and route the call.
Being restricted to only your network when another provider might have a cell tower nearby with full signal is ridiculous in an emergency.
As I understand it…That’s exactly how mobile phones work when you dial emergency number. if your operator has no signal, it automatically selects the strongest cell signal and attempts it through that. And you don’t even have to know the country equivalent number, dialing 911 will automatically route to the local emergency center. There’s a list of numbers that are recognized as emergency numbers by the phone/sim, but the actual number is not even used when the call is initiated. In general as long as you have a phone with battery left, you should be able to make a call to emergency center.
I believe 911 will work without even a provider. I’ve obviously never tried it. Maybe without a card even
It’ll work without a valid provider or without a SIM at all. As long as it has battery and can pick up any network’s signal.
Repeat after me “Fines need to be tied to global revenue”. It has to hurt, if you want companies to stop.
Verizon, “Stop, it tickles!”
