> 131b revenue in 2015. So, at 1.3m, a 0.001% fine, aka half a minute of revenue.
Came here to say exactly this — except that it's even worse than your numbers suggest: some form of the UIDH has been in play since at least 2012. If you amortize the fine across the lifetime of the program, a mere $1.3m is an obscenely paltry penalty.
These "fines" will never deter bad behavior until they have some teeth. When VZW takes in more in the time it takes for me to let a call go to voicemail than they were fined for this crap, I think the take-away has to be that the regulatory bodies are pretty much, "That's nice, son. You run along and play now" over it.
Came here to say exactly this — except that it's even worse than your numbers suggest: some form of the UIDH has been in play since at least 2012. If you amortize the fine across the lifetime of the program, a mere $1.3m is an obscenely paltry penalty.
These "fines" will never deter bad behavior until they have some teeth. When VZW takes in more in the time it takes for me to let a call go to voicemail than they were fined for this crap, I think the take-away has to be that the regulatory bodies are pretty much, "That's nice, son. You run along and play now" over it.