A MASSIVE SLOWDOWN - Throttling Emergency Responders’ Data Is Definitely About Net Neutrality
The Trump administration has successfully completed its plan to kill Net Neutrality and ended the free and open Internet. When it repealed net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made more than a few enemies. And now, it can add another one to the list: the Santa Clara County Fire Department (SCCFD). Since the vote to repeal in December 2017, several government agencies have come together to file a lawsuit against the FCC.
Monday, the SCCFD contributed an addendum to the lawsuit brief. Back when it was in place, net neutrality prohibited internet service providers (ISPs) from treating some content on the internet differently from other content for example, slowing down users’ access to certain websites. Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden alleges that, even though the organization paid its ISP, Verizon, for unlimited data, the department saw its transfer speeds reduced to 1/200th their previous rate after it used more than 25GB of data in a month.
“This throttling has had a significant impact on our ability to provide emergency services. Verizon imposed these limitations despite being informed that throttling was actively impeding County Fire’s ability to provide crisis-response and essential emergency services.”
This proposal cancels nearly two decades of agreements between left and right, which protect Americans' ability to freely access the Internet. The Internet as we know it could very well change forever and not for the better !!!!
- Read fire department net neutrality pdf : https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fire-department-net-neutrality.pdf
