Rogers outage: CRTC demands answers

Ottawa-

Canada’s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday it had ordered Rogers Communications to answer questions about last week’s network outage that affected millions of Canadians.

Rogers must provide a detailed account of ‘why’ and ‘how’ the outage occurred, and what measures the company is putting in place to prevent future outages, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said. in a press release.

The company has until July 22 to provide its responses, after which the CRTC will decide what further action to take.

(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Chris Reese)

As a first step to better understand what happened last Friday, we sent a request for information to Rogers regarding the outage and the measures to be put in place to ensure the resilience of the network.
We will keep you informed. https://t.co/fLCYNYoE0w

— CRTCeng (@CRTCeng) July 12, 2022