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Rogers' nation-wide outage and how to prevent it from happening again

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…

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