Canada’s internet outage caused by ‘maintenance’, CEO apologies

Ottawa: Following country-wide outrage against its services, Rogers, one of Canada’s largest mobile and Internet providers apologised to the nation today.

The company’s CEO Tony Staffieri said that failure caused due to maintenence update in the core network.

He said that they have narrowed the glitch led to system failure that caused some routers to malfunction from Friday. The problem lasted for over 15 hours, but most services have now been restored, officials said.

Meanwhile, banking, transport and emergency services got hit following Friday’s blackout and many services including 911 hotlines and ATMs left unavailable.