Rogers offers Canada’s fastest, most reliable outages across the country
- Thread starter mentalfloss
- Start date
Time to have a publicly funded backup network.
"This could have been catastrophic for the country if this was a threat actor," he said on Saturday.
Leblanc said the outage — Rogers' second significant outage in 15 months — makes it clear that the federal government can't just rely on telecom companies to do the right thing.
'This could have been catastrophic'
Richard Leblanc, a professor of governance, law and ethics at York University in Toronto, said the outage was a learning opportunity for threat actors, such as Russian state-sponsored hackers, who can now see how vulnerable Canadian industry, financial institutions and health-care systems are to an attack on a telecom provider."This could have been catastrophic for the country if this was a threat actor," he said on Saturday.
Leblanc said the outage — Rogers' second significant outage in 15 months — makes it clear that the federal government can't just rely on telecom companies to do the right thing.
Or less frequently. It was most likely a software update gone wrong that caused the issue.perhaps bell and rogers, etc. should update their hardware and software more frequently?
What a waste of money. As if the government could do this right or cheaply.
Probably will happen since the liberals just love to piss away our money. The backup will likely crash worse.....just Justin's style
You just love spending other peoples money..
Maybe when you move out of your mothers basement and have to pay your own bills, maybe then your attitude might change
It's a great way for the government to track your political opinions and affiliations.
Rogers falls as massive outage raises concerns over Shaw deal
Canada's competition bureau blocked the deal earlier this year. The merger still awaits a final verdict.
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Publishing date:Jul 11, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 2 minute read • 22 Comments
Shares of Rogers Communications Inc and takeover target Shaw Communications fell on Monday as analysts voiced concerns over increased risk to the C$20 billion ($15.4 billion) deal following last week’s 19-hour Rogers outage.
Rogers suffered an unprecedented outage on Friday that affected nearly every facet of daily life in Canada as access to internet and phone services, both mobile and landline, was cut off. Some callers could not reach emergency services via 911 calls, police across Canada said.
On Monday, Canadian payment gateway Interac said it was adding another network provider to its system after the Rogers outage left millions of Canadians locked out of online payments.
“We are adding a supplier (besides Rogers) to strengthen our existing network redundancy so Canadians can continue to rely on Interac daily,” Interac said in a statement.
Rogers’ Canadian-listed shares fell 4.6% and Shaw dropped 4.3% to C$34.67, while the benchmark Canadian share index ended down 1.2%. Rogers has offered C$40 per Shaw share.
The probability of the deal closure dropped to about 62% on Monday from 88% a week ago, according to merger arbitrage traders.
“The incident is likely to introduce incremental regulatory risk to the Shaw transaction,” BMO analyst Tim Casey said, adding that it would also raise investor concerns over Rogers’ ability to execute on deal synergies.
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne was expected to meet on Monday with chief executives of Rogers, BCE Inc and Telus Corp, which control 90% of Canada’s telecommunications market, to discuss how to improve network reliability across the country.
“This isn’t just about checking off a box. The minister will have some ideas and, hopefully, some solutions will come out of it,” said a ministry official, who did not wish to be quoted due to the sensitivity of the issue.
The ministry has the final say on the deal.
“We very much remain committed to the Shaw transaction,” Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri told BNN Bloomberg Television on Monday. “That transaction has always been about expanding our network capabilities, attaining more redundancy and coverage across the nation that can only help in situations like this,” he added.
Friday’s disruption came two days after Rogers held talks with Canada’s antitrust authority to discuss possible remedies to its blocked takeover of Shaw.
Canada’s competition bureau blocked the deal earlier this year, saying it would hamper competition in a country where telecom rates are some of the world’s highest.
Rogers’ second outage in 15 months has led consumers and politicians to call on the government to allow more competition in the sector.
Rogers on Saturday said its services were close to fully operational and narrowed the cause to a network system failure following a maintenance update.
A research note by Scotiabank estimated Rogers would have to credit between C$65 million to C$75 million to customers in the third quarter due to the outage.
Rogers had a net income of C$1.56 billion in 2021.
Scotiabank analysts also said increased political and regulatory risk is a possibility after the outage.
The oversight needs to balance the risk of future failures against the increased consumer/economic costs in building other parallel networks, they added.
torontosun.com
Canada's competition bureau blocked the deal earlier this year. The merger still awaits a final verdict.
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Publishing date:Jul 11, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 2 minute read • 22 Comments
Shares of Rogers Communications Inc and takeover target Shaw Communications fell on Monday as analysts voiced concerns over increased risk to the C$20 billion ($15.4 billion) deal following last week’s 19-hour Rogers outage.
Rogers suffered an unprecedented outage on Friday that affected nearly every facet of daily life in Canada as access to internet and phone services, both mobile and landline, was cut off. Some callers could not reach emergency services via 911 calls, police across Canada said.
On Monday, Canadian payment gateway Interac said it was adding another network provider to its system after the Rogers outage left millions of Canadians locked out of online payments.
“We are adding a supplier (besides Rogers) to strengthen our existing network redundancy so Canadians can continue to rely on Interac daily,” Interac said in a statement.
Rogers’ Canadian-listed shares fell 4.6% and Shaw dropped 4.3% to C$34.67, while the benchmark Canadian share index ended down 1.2%. Rogers has offered C$40 per Shaw share.
The probability of the deal closure dropped to about 62% on Monday from 88% a week ago, according to merger arbitrage traders.
“The incident is likely to introduce incremental regulatory risk to the Shaw transaction,” BMO analyst Tim Casey said, adding that it would also raise investor concerns over Rogers’ ability to execute on deal synergies.
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne was expected to meet on Monday with chief executives of Rogers, BCE Inc and Telus Corp, which control 90% of Canada’s telecommunications market, to discuss how to improve network reliability across the country.
“This isn’t just about checking off a box. The minister will have some ideas and, hopefully, some solutions will come out of it,” said a ministry official, who did not wish to be quoted due to the sensitivity of the issue.
The ministry has the final say on the deal.
“We very much remain committed to the Shaw transaction,” Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri told BNN Bloomberg Television on Monday. “That transaction has always been about expanding our network capabilities, attaining more redundancy and coverage across the nation that can only help in situations like this,” he added.
Friday’s disruption came two days after Rogers held talks with Canada’s antitrust authority to discuss possible remedies to its blocked takeover of Shaw.
Canada’s competition bureau blocked the deal earlier this year, saying it would hamper competition in a country where telecom rates are some of the world’s highest.
Rogers’ second outage in 15 months has led consumers and politicians to call on the government to allow more competition in the sector.
Rogers on Saturday said its services were close to fully operational and narrowed the cause to a network system failure following a maintenance update.
A research note by Scotiabank estimated Rogers would have to credit between C$65 million to C$75 million to customers in the third quarter due to the outage.
Rogers had a net income of C$1.56 billion in 2021.
Scotiabank analysts also said increased political and regulatory risk is a possibility after the outage.
The oversight needs to balance the risk of future failures against the increased consumer/economic costs in building other parallel networks, they added.
Rogers falls as massive outage raises concerns over Shaw deal
Canada's competition bureau blocked the deal earlier this year. The merger still awaits a final verdict.
I love how the govt is pissing and moaning about this while it's been successive govts that have created this oligarchy in the first place. And this one is cementing it further with its unreasonable nonsense about Canadian content.
I mean the fuckwit in Ottawa was yammering on back in 2015 about he was going to make Canada into the first post-nation state, and yet he's worried about nationalistic crap like goddam content?
It's really hard to believe there are sock worshiping fools who still take Groper & gang seriously.
I mean the fuckwit in Ottawa was yammering on back in 2015 about he was going to make Canada into the first post-nation state, and yet he's worried about nationalistic crap like goddam content?
It's really hard to believe there are sock worshiping fools who still take Groper & gang seriously.
Class action sought against Rogers for service outage, inconveniences
montrealgazette.com
Class action sought against Rogers for service outage, inconveniences
If authorized, the class action will seek $400 for each customer who was deprived of service.
They didn't. Looks like you're another fucktard who doesn't know what a monopoly is.
Of course he does! It's a board game with a funny little bald guy in a tux and moustache running around buying streets!
Silly Jin. . .