Rogers will spend $261M to split networks, lacks data to quantify economic impact of July outage
Rogers Communications Inc. will now spend $261 million to bodily break up its wi-fi and wireline networks following the July 8 outage, and says it’s not ready to quantify the direct financial losses attributable to the disruption.
The feedback are available in an Aug. 22 letter requested by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee (CRTC) that gives extra info pertaining to the outage that impacted million of Canadians.
The splitting of networks was beforehand anticipated to price $250 million.
The size of time it would take to separate the networks was redacted, nonetheless, together with different particulars on the measure.
Rogers additionally says within the letter that it doesn’t have the mandatory knowledge to find out the precise financial losses attributable to the outage.
Within the weeks after the outage, Rogers stated it could be committing $10 billion over three years to extend oversight, testing and using synthetic intelligence to make sure dependable service, and would spend $150 million on buyer credit.
