GATINEAU, QC, July 12, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, the CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Rogers) to respond to detailed questions and provide a comprehensive explanation regarding the national service outage millions of Canadians experienced on Friday July 8, 2022. This widespread network outage not only disrupted Canadians and Canadian businesses across the country, it prevented access to services such as 9-1-1 and emergency/public alerting, as well as other critical infrastructure services. This is the first step the CRTC is taking to improve network resiliency for all Canadians in response to this significant outage. Events of this magnitude paralysing portions of our country's economy and jeopardizing the safety of Canadians are simply unacceptable. Once we are satisfied with Rogers' response to our questions, we will determine what additional measures need to be taken.

Source: CBC News July 12, 2022 19:42 UTC