OTTAWA—The House of Commons industry committee will hold two hearings today about the Rogers outage that lasted more than 15 hours and left millions of Canadians in a communications blackout.
The July 8 outage affected Rogers mobile and internet users, knocked out ATMs, shut down the Interac payments system and prevented calls to 911 services in some Canadian cities.
The committee held an emergency meeting July 15 and voted unanimously to open an investigation into the Rogers outage.
Rogers executives, Innovation Minister François−Philippe Champagne, and officials from the Canadian Radio−television and Telecommunications Commission are set to testify.
The committee will seek answers about the cause of the outage, its overall effect, and best practices to avoid future outages and better communicate with the public during such emergencies….