Federal industry minister and Rogers CEO to meet after massive outage
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OTTAWA — Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has informed telecom corporations to succeed in agreements inside 60 days on emergency roaming, helping one another throughout outages and a communication protocol to higher inform Canadians and authorities throughout emergencies.
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He additionally says the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee will examine the Rogers outage.
Champagne made the announcement on Twitter at present after a gathering with executives of the most important telecom corporations, following the large Rogers Communications outage late final week.
The minister says the outage was “unacceptable” and his announcement represents only a “first step,” as Canadians deserve higher from their suppliers by way of high quality and reliability of service.
He says he’ll guarantee the businesses meet the excessive commonplace Canadians count on, together with enhancing competitors, innovation and affordability.
The widespread Rogers service outage started on Friday morning and lasted no less than 15 hours, knocking out entry to many health-care, regulation enforcement and banking providers.
