key takeaways
- A major Canadian telecommunications company, Rogers, is currently experiencing downtime.
- The outage is affecting various corners of Canadian society, including emergency services, financial networks, road infrastructure, government departments, police stations and airports.
- This is the second time Rogers has gone down in less than fifteen months.
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Canadian Internet provider Rogers Communications is suffering from a major loss affecting all corners of Canada, including services that are not directly related to the company, such as emergency services and the banking sector.
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Canadian telecommunications company Rogers Communications is down, along with most of the country’s working telecommunications functionality.
The outage, which reportedly began at 8:30 a.m. UTC, is severely affecting wireless, cable and internet customers across the country. Even services not directly controlled by Rogers are facing problems.
Spillover effects from the outage have affected various sectors of Canadian society, including emergency services, banks, financial institutions, government departments, police stations, airports, bridge infrastructure and the border with the United States. 911 service is still operating properly, although not accessible through Rogers-affiliated devices or networks.
Rogers Communications is the leading Internet provider in Ontario and controls more than 90% of the market share in Canada along with two other companies (BCE and Telus). This is the second outage in the country from Rogers in the past two years.
The incident may come as a sharp reminder to Canadians and spectators of the risks posed by centralized service providers.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this article owns ETH and several other cryptocurrencies.
