Internet Outage

• Widespread Bell outage now fixed as company says update was to blame

  Bell says an update impacted some of its routers causing an internet outage on Wednesday morning, with tens of thousands of Canadians reporting to DownDetector they had no service.

  Canada

  May 21
  
• CrowdStrike outage: Canadian flights, health care disrupted after faulty update

  Dozens of Canadian flights and several hospitals across the country were impacted on Friday amid a global technology outage related to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

  Tech

  Jul 19, 2024
  
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• Rogers says network upgrades after outage will cost $261M, but no timeline given

  Rogers Communications is set to spend $261 million to overhaul its network in an effort to prevent future outages like the one that knocked out service in July.

  Canada

  Aug 25, 2022
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• Twitter outage: Service restored after ‘internal systems change’ error, site says

  A possible Twitter outage was affecting thousands of users attempting to load up the social media site on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Downdetector website.

  Tech

  Aug 9, 2022
• Twitter says service is back after users worldwide report outage

  Twitter users were unable to log into the social media site on Thursday morning amid reports of a global outage on the popular platform.

  Tech

  Jul 14, 2022
• Rogers outage sheds light on need for competition in Canada’s telecom sector: expert

  The widespread Rogers Communications Inc. outage had many warning the incident is a sign that monopolistic telecommunications companies need more competition.

  Tech

  Jul 8, 2022
• Rogers outage: Concert-goers urged to print off tickets at home

  Canadian concertgoers are being asked to save or print off their tickets as a widespread network outage at Rogers Communications Inc. stymied mobile internet access for many.

  Canada

  Jul 8, 2022
• Why did Amazon Web Services crash? Here’s what it means

  A major outage of Amazon Web Services severely disrupted a wide range of U.S. companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the internet and how it happened.

  Tech

  Dec 8, 2021
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• Amazon Web Services says it has resolved issues linked to widespread outage

  Amazon Web Services provides servers, storage, email, and a number of other services to these platforms -- effectively keeping large parts of the internet running.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2021
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• Global outage affecting websites of airlines, banks, tech firms now fixed

  Websites of Delta Air Lines, Costco Wholesale Corp , American Express and Home Depot were down, displaying domain name system (DNS) service errors.

  Tech

  Jul 22, 2021