Canada’s industry minister is set to meet with the head of Rogers Communications and other major telecom companies on Monday afternoon in the wake of last week’s massive outage that paralyzed the company’s network.
The office of François-Philippe Champagne said he planned to meet with Tony Staffieri and other telecom leaders to discuss the importance of improving Canada’s networks.
The widespread Rogers service outage began on Friday morning and lasted at least 15 hours, knocking out access to many health-care, law enforcement and banking services.
The statement from Champagne’s office said the minister found the disruption “unacceptable,” describing the services as “vitally important” in the daily lives of Canadians….