Last Friday’s outage lasted more than 15 hours, affecting mobile and internet users, knocking out ATMs, shutting down the Interac payments system and preventing calls to 911 services in some Canadian cities.
After calling the outage “unacceptable,” Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne directed the country’s major telecom companies to reach agreements on emergency roaming, assisting each other during outages and a communication protocol to better inform Canadians during emergencies. The telecommunications regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, is also investigating the Rogers outage.
Conservative MP and former industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner wrote to the committee last week requesting it hold an emergency meeting.Your time is valuable. Have the Top Business Headlines newsletter conveniently delivered to your inbox in the morning or evening.
But they wouldn't investigate these properly.
Oh look, the government that never answers any questions is demanding answers. That's rich.
Government needs to butt out. Rogers will investigate- you think they want this to happen again? Rogers will put controls into mitigating the risk of it happening again. government can’t even issue a passport of have airports run efficiently. They destroy everything they touch
This guy is about as useless as a three dollar bill
This is simply setting up a means so our taxes will be used to fix Roger's issues. This is disgusting. The amount of money that flows from taxpayers out to Corporations is stunning and must be stopped.
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