Massive Rogers outage snarling telecom, banking and government services continues

[Spazito]

A massive outage at Rogers has brought down internet and cellular service across Canada, and has also interrupted government services and payment systems for businesses and individuals.

The outage began some time early Friday morning, and as of 5 p.m. ET had not been fixed.

The company does not have an estimate when the day-long outage will be fixed, said Kye Prigg, Rogers' senior vice-president of access networks and operations, on CBC's Power & Politics.

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"Debit is currently unavailable online and at checkout. Interac e-transfer is also widely unavailable, impacting the ability to send and receive payments."

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The Toronto Police Service tweeted that Rogers customers in that city were having trouble connecting to 911, but stressed that the 911 service itself was working properly, as long as people weren't calling from a Rogers-affiliated device.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-cell-mobile-wifi-1.6514373


Rogers is in the process of purchasing Shaw, another provider, and if both had gone down this would be even more widespread and potentially catastrophic in its effect, imo.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Gee, I wonder what caused this...

…or maybe the question is “who?”

[Spazito]

2. This is their second massive outage in two years...

they are saying both are caused by updates gone awry. Whatever caused it there is certainly a lesson to be learned about how vulnerable we have become to this kind of technology.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. So far, Roger's isn't even acknowledging they know the cause. Nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Our rural how loses internet couple times a year.

One other several reasons I don't bank on line.

We've learned to keep small bills and cons on hand. Grocery store here will accept old fashioned $$ if their checkout machines don't work.

[Spazito]

5. I try to limit my dependence as well...

and have 'manual back-ups' like cash, land line and still get most of my bills in the mail rather than on-line.