Major Canadian telecoms agree to emergency outage deal, industry minister says

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The deal comes after a massive Rogers Communications service disruption in July that affected millions of Canadians

The federal industry minister says Canada’s major telecom companies have reached a formal agreement to “ensure and guarantee” emergency roaming and other mutual assistance in the case of a major outage.service disruption on July 8 that affected millions of Canadians.

In the days after the outage, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne directed the CEOs of Rogers and other telecom companies to develop a backup plan to prevent a similar scenario, giving them 60 days to do so. He says the companies have committed to assist one another to ensure 911 connections aren’t affected in the event of an outage.He also says he is taking additional steps, including directing the Canadian Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee to come up with further measures within six months to ensure robust and reliable telecom networks across the country.

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