Canadians who woke up Friday to a worldwide technology outage that disrupted airlines, hospitals and banks may be thinking back to a widespread telecom outage from two years ago.
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July 19, 2024
''The July 2022 outage of Rogers Communications Inc.'s networks lasted more than 24 hours and affected more than 12 million customers while paralyzing communications across a number of sectors, including health care, law enforcement and the financial industry.'
''Two years ago, Canadians had a similar reminder of the interconnectedness of modern technology during the Rogers outage. In that case, communications were affected, which meant many 911 services couldn't receive incoming calls and debit transactions were paused when Interac was knocked offline.
Several hospitals reported being affected by the outages at the time.
Small business owners were among those hardest hit by the outage, which left them unable to process debit card payments''.