After the Rogers network outage left 911 and other critical services inaccessible for millions of Canadians in July, the country’s major telecommunications companies have agreed on a plan to help each other out in case a network goes down. David Akin explains why critics are unimpressed, and how Ottawa vows more will be done to improve the reliability of wireless and internet services.
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