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Posted on 07/08/2022 1:01:26 PM PDT by Twotone
A major outage of mobile and internet networks caused widespread disruptions across Canada on Friday, affecting banks, police emergency lines and customers in the second outage to hit one of the country’s biggest telecom providers in 15 months.
Customers gathered at coffee shops and public libraries to access alternate networks, while financial institutions reported problems with everything from automated machines to cashless payment systems.
Rogers Communications said its technical teams were working to restore services as quickly as possible.
The outage is likely to add to concerns about competition in the industry that is dominated by Rogers.
The company, which has about 10 million wireless subscribers and 2.25 million retail internet subscribers, is the leading service provider in Ontario, and along with BCE and Telus, controls 90% of the market share in Canada.
Earlier this year, Canada’s competition bureau blocked Rogers’ attempt to take over rival Shaw Communications in a C$20bn deal, saying it would hamper competition in a country where telecom rates are some of the highest in the world.
“Today’s outage illustrates the need for more independent competition that will drive more network investment so outages are far less likely,” said Anthony Lacavera, managing director of Globealive, an investment firm that had bid for a wireless provider involved in the Rogers/Shaw deal.
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How will the masses be able to drive, without talking on their phones? Or using GPS for directions?
“How will the masses be able to drive, without talking on their phones? Or using GPS for directions”?
Those things aew/were affected, too. They won’t be talking.
can you hear me now...
Right, because that network could be used to one day tell those vehicles how to drive so we don’t have to.
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This is Canada. Wouldn't that be 'can you hear me now, eh'
What will they do without Siri & Alexa to tell them what to do?
And to be locked out of using of their “smart” home.
Just despicable service.
How will the masses be able to work from home? My daughter in Iowa said they had Internet outages across Iowa a couple days ago. She works from home, and was unable to connect with co-workers. Her company HQ in Des Moines lost ability to do business. Daughter manages other managers across the nation - no Internet, no teleconferencing. Another daughter here in California also works from home - as do all their employees, but Internet was unaffected in California.
If it’s in Canada it’s an “ootage”.
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Good grief, what’s going in with these tech companies?
Last weekend (07/02), Japan’s KDDI had a substantial outage caused by a router replacement that went sideways.
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/20220702-OYT1T50113/
What’s this all aboot?
Isn’t this what they wanted? I’m so confused. I thought the goal was to do away with electrical and coal generated power altogether so that we could finally return to the enlightened time of the dark ages. (Of course, our “betters” should have all the conveniences that petroleum brings, but certainly not the peasants.)
Yeah, funny thing that pronouncing a two syllable word with two syllables sounds odd to people that Split the word “out” into ah yut.
testing testing...............
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