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A major blockade of Rogers has cut off 25 percent of Canada's internet traffic

A major blockade of Rogers has cut off 25 percent of Canada's internet traffic




Canadian telecommunications Rogers is facing heavy losses affecting landline phones, cellular connections and Internet connectivity across Canada, which began this morning. The outage also disconnected Interac, the network used by Canadian banks, disabling debit card, ATM and e-transfer services, which recently processed more than 1 billion transactions a year. . DownDetector listed thousands of reports for the issues because people started getting up around 5 a.m. and couldn't get online.

Rogers first addressed the outage in a tweet from his official support account just before 9AM ET, and then went silent for a few hours. In a statement to The Verge and tweeted at approximately 11:30AM ET, Rogers said, "We are currently experiencing an outage on our wireline and wireless networks and our technical team will provide services as soon as possible." will be able to." On behalf of all of us at Rogers, we sincerely apologize to our customers, and we will continue to keep you updated as we have more information to share, including how we serve. We look forward to your backup . Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue."

On behalf of all of us at Rogers, we sincerely apologize to our customers, and we will continue to keep you updated as we have more information to share, including which we look forward to backing up the service. pic.twitter.com/JIjGRUzxe5

— RogersHelps (@RogersHelps) July 8, 2022

Cloudflare radar shows communication between its load-sharing network and Rogers in Canada, performing its normal night pattern before falling to essentially zero at around 3 - 4AM ET and registering a flat line since then. At the same time, there was a huge increase in BGP announcements for the network indicating a change in routing, but it is unknown whether they were a trigger for the event or a result of the network going offline.

Internet network disruption tracker Netblox has shared real-time data showing that Canada's national connectivity has dropped to just 75 percent from its normal level.

️ Update: Internet and telecommunications disruptions continue in #Canada, a quarter of the country's observable connectivity is currently off; Metrics show high impact on Rogers/Fido and several smaller network providers pic.twitter.com/HbcoM7PRKB

— netblocks (@netblocks) July 8, 2022
A CBC News report said Rogers' subsidiary Fido is also facing problems. The article said the problems affected card payment processing and ATMs across Canada. A CBC radio station in Kitchener, Ontario is also offline, and some telephone services to Ottawa's transit agency have been discontinued. Photos from Toronto show people heading to coffee shops or libraries to use Wi-Fi, now that their other options are offline.

TekSavvy customer service has told customers that the outage extends to "Ontario, Quebec and the Eastern Province" with no ETA for the solution, while the CBC reports that Thunder Bay operator Tbaytel says the Rogers outage is nationwide. ,


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Toronto police tweeted early in the morning after some people in the city experienced connection issues to call 911. "The Rogers Network is experiencing some technical difficulties," the Toronto Police Operations Twitter account said. "We are working to resolve these issues." In a follow-up tweet, police confirmed that their 911 center is operational and advised anyone to call if they want to be on the line when they connect and try to call again if they don't. To give.

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