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1/ Let's talk about Verizon for a moment. They offered California firefighters 50% off their normal rates for mobile Internet. Not content with this, California firefighters chose an even cheaper option that would throttle when it hit the monthly max download limit.
2/ The firefighters chose a plan that would throttle during an emergency, and when it did in fact throttle during an emergency, they blamed Verizon instead of themselves.
3/ But in our culture, Big Corporations are always Evil, and First Responders are always Heroes. Therefore, Verizon has to spend millions on a Super Bowl honoring First Responders are always heroes, and millions more for a charity.
4/ Instead of being angry at Verizon, we should be holding the firefighters accountable, demanding the person be fired who chose the cheaper throttling plan over the non-throttling plan.
5/ BTW, rural 4G/LTE (the kind the firefighters used) is vastly different than urban. Among the differences are how rural people rely upon it as their primary connection to the Internet.
6/ I have a tree farm in the countryside. Neighbors use AT&T, Verizon, Hughes Satellite, and a "rural wireless ISP" as the various forms of Internet connections. If you don't pay for the bandwidth you consume, it'll go to somebody else who is paying for it.
