The federal government additionally introduced further steps to enhance the reliability of telecommunications networks in Canada
Canadian cellular operators have reached a proper settlement to make sure and assure emergency roaming and different mutual help within the case of a significant outage, the federal government mentioned in a assertion.
The settlement comes after an enormous Rogers Communications service disruption on July 8 that affected thousands and thousands of cellular customers throughout Canada.
In an announcement, Minister of Innovation, Science and Trade Francois-Philippe Champagne mentioned the cellular operators and different gamers within the telecoms discipline have dedicated to quite a lot of obligations to ensure the reliability of companies.
“I can report back to Canadians {that a} formal settlement has been reached by these firms, together with quite a lot of different telecommunications service suppliers providing Web and cellular companies. As of September 9, ought to considered one of these suppliers be confronted with a significant community outage, the opposite firms have dedicated to supply the help and help essential in order that Canadians can attain family members, entry 911, and conduct enterprise transactions,” Champagne mentioned.
“As a part of this settlement, the businesses additionally decide to offering clear and well timed communications to maintain Canadians and acceptable authorities knowledgeable about response and restoration throughout main community outages,” he added.
The transfer was pushed by authorities within the wake of an outage suffered by Rogers Communications in July the place companies have been disrupted for greater than 15 hours.
“The Rogers outage of July 8 was unacceptable, and we should do all the pieces doable to make sure one thing comparable doesn’t occur once more sooner or later… Canadians deserve robust, dependable, and inexpensive telecommunications networks,” Champagne mentioned.
Aside from this settlement with cellular operators, Champagne additionally introduced a collection of further steps to enhance the reliability of telecommunications networks within the nation.
“I directed the Canadian Safety Telecommunications Advisory Committee (CSTAC) to provide you with additional measures inside six months to make sure strong and dependable telecommunications networks throughout the nation.”
The minister mentioned it has instructed his division to evaluation all acceptable regulatory measures to be carried out aimed toward strengthening the reliability and security of telecommunications networks.
