Rogers executives, CRTC officials to testify at House of Commons hearings on outage – National
The Home of Commons trade committee will maintain two hearings as we speak concerning the Rogers outage that lasted greater than 15 hours and left tens of millions of Canadians in a communications blackout.
The July 8 outage affected Rogers cell and web customers, knocked out ATMs, shut down the Interac funds system and prevented calls to 911 providers in some Canadian cities.
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The committee held an emergency assembly July 15 and voted unanimously to open an investigation into the Rogers outage.
Rogers executives, Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, and officers from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee are set to testify.
The committee will search solutions about the reason for the outage, its total impact, and greatest practices to keep away from future outages and higher talk with the general public throughout such emergencies.
Following the outage, Champagne directed Canada’s main telecom corporations to succeed in agreements on helping one another throughout outages and a communication protocol to higher inform Canadians throughout emergencies.
Consultants, nonetheless, have known as for elevated competitors within the telecom trade to ease the affect of future outages on Canadians.
Rogers is searching for a $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc., however the transaction requires approval of the Competitors Bureau in addition to Champagne’s division of Innovation, Science and Financial Improvement Canada.
