Rogers’ nation-wide outage and how to prevent it from happening again
Posted July 13, 2022 6:04 am.
Last Updated July 13, 2022 6:26 am.
On Monday, Ottawa called Canada’s telecom giants to the table to talk about ways to prevent future large scale disruptions like Friday’s nationwide Rogers outage, demanding a plan from telecom providers within 60 days.
On top of that, the CRTC, Canada’s regulatory agency for broadcast and telecommunications has launched an investigation.
But many of us are still feeling the sting from being disconnected on Friday and wondering what happens next? What does this say about the vulnerabilities of telecommunications infrastructure in this country? What is the government’s role in all of this? And what solutions should we be pushing for?
Today, guest host Garvia Bailey speaks with Vass Bendar, executive director of the masters of public policy in digital society program at McMaster’s University, about what possible solutions are within reach.
“It sort of burst open this policy-window of opportunity for us to have a reckoning, and sort of say wow this hurt our economy, hurt people, was embarrassing on an international stage, you know, is this the best possible system that we can have?” said Bendar.
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