Posted on 07/08/2022 11:42:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
*Canada’s Rogers Communications said on Friday it was working to resolve its network issues that have caused widespread disruptions affecting banks, police and consumers across the country.
*The outage comes as Rogers is attempting to take over rival Shaw Communications. The C$20-billion deal has been delayed by antitrust authorities over competition concerns.
*Interac, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank Of Montreal said they were impacted by the outage.
Canada’s Rogers Communications said on Friday it was working to resolve its network issues that have caused widespread disruptions affecting banks, police and consumers across the country.
“We are aware of issues currently affecting our networks and our teams are fully engaged to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Rogers said in a tweet.
The outage, which appears bigger than the one last year that largely affected consumers, comes as Rogers is attempting to take over rival Shaw Communications. The C$20-billion deal has been delayed by antitrust authorities over competition concerns.
Police in Ottawa, the Canadian capital city, said some callers may have difficulty reaching emergency services via 911 calls. Police in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, also said some Rogers customers may have not be able to reach 911 operators, although its call center was fully operational.
Interac, which operates an email money transfer service used by several Canadian banks, said the outage was affecting its services. Toronto-Dominion Bank said it was facing system issues with its Interac e-Transfer service.
Bank Of Montreal said the outage was affecting all financial institutions, toll-free numbers as well as transactions.
Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed over 20,000 user reports of the outage. The reports dropped to nearly 10,000 by 9 am ET.
Rogers, which has about 10 million wireless subscribers and 2.25 million retail internet subscribers, dominates the wireless industry in the country along with BCE and Telus Corp.
Canadians waking up to the reality of no services on Friday morning had to scramble. “On my morning walk saw about 20 people standing outside Starbucks checking their cells probably due to #rogersoutage. Coffee shops are also busy this morning with people doing business meetings,” Twitter user Bojan Land wrote.
It affected my TV and internet at home, about 5am today. Wonder if things are getting back online now (or hopefully soon).
“Outage”?
The opposite of ‘Inage’............
It affected my TV and internet at home, about 5am today. Wonder if things are getting back online now (or hopefully soon).
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You’re online now, so now you know.
Actually, I am at work and we use a different service. So that is why I was able to reply here, lol.
Oh, sorry. Thanks.
People think the internet is distributed. It’s actually got some bottlenecks that could be targeted.
That would be fun.
Mr Roger’s neighborhood 🤪
That explains why my trash hauler’s website is down. Their phones aren’t working either. They are headquartered in Canada.
One of our DNA sons and his wife helped a friend take their boat/small ship from Bodega Bay to Victoria.
They flew back from Sea Tac on 5 July and couldn’t get near an ATM due to Canadians using them.
Their SW plane landed in Sac. @22 minutes ahead of time.
The Southwest pilot said the many cancelled flights of other airlines meant that he just had to get to their allowed maximum altitude and go straight to Sac. Once they landed, the pilot went straight to the gate with the plane.
This son and his wife were on the expressway heading home before their scheduled ETA.
A moose bit the wire. (Just messing with our Canadian FRiends!)
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