CanadaThe industry minister said he plans to meet the head Rogers Communications and other telecommunications leaders after a major outage caused the Rogers network to effectively shut down for at least 15 hours.
A statement released from Francois-Philippe Champagne’s office said he plans to meet with CEO Rogers. Tony Staffieriamong others, to discuss the importance of improving “reliability of networks across Canada.”
The statement said Champagne found service disruptions last week that made access to multiple law enforcement, healthcare and banking services “unacceptable” and expressed that point of view directly with CEO Rogers.
Staffieri released a statement on Saturday alleging Friday’s widespread outage was caused by a network failure following a maintenance update, adding that “the majority” of customers were back online. again.
But many reporting services continued to be disrupted on Sunday, including Courtice, Ont. resident Paul Platt, who said his home wireless network was only restored after being down for more than 48 hours.
Rogers declined to comment on the continued outage when asked by the Canadian Press, but referenced Staffieri’s earlier statement in which he said engineering teams were continuing to monitor “any indirect issues.” what’s left?”
Downdetector, a website dedicated to monitoring power outages, found that the number of people reporting problems with Rogers’ service was significantly higher than usual on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Montreal, Toronto and neighboring Mississauga, Ont., and Ontario The cities of London and Kitchener are among the most reported cities on the site.
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