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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Sam Msiska

Canada's Internet Outage Left More Than 10 Million People Without Internet For 15 Hours

During what was arguably the worst internet outage in the country, nearly 10 million Canadian residents were left without internet and mobile services beginning at 4:30 a.m. two Fridays ago. 

What happened: Customers of one of the largest telecommunications companies in Canada, Rogers Communications Inc. (TSE: RCI.B) lost internet service because of what the company described as a maintenance update in its core network, which caused some of its routers to malfunction.

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