Canadian telco Rogers Communications suffered a major outage Friday that hobbled Internet, mobile, and even emergency services for millions of customers throughout the country. The company was able to restore service for most of its customers on Saturday, a day after the issues began.
Rogers President and CEO Tony Staffieri acknowledged the issues in a Saturday blog post. A maintenance update to Rogers’ core network caused some of its routers to malfunction early on Friday, he said. While Staffieri offered some details about what Rogers was doing to recover, neither he nor the company have yet specified what actually caused the outage which crippled communications for millions throughout Canada.
