Verizon Throttled Firefighters’ Data Plan During California Wildfire

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Tue, 08/21/2018 - 5:59pm

A Northern California fire chief said efforts to battle the largest wildfire in the state’s history were hampered by Verizon Communications Inc., which throttled the fire department’s mobile-data plan to the point that it made communications impossible.

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