CRTC hiring consulting firm to evaluate Rogers network outage and proposed changes

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The CRTC has put out a contract notice Thursday for a consultancy firm that will assist in analyzing the network outage at Rogers last summer and improvements the company has committed to going forward. The July 8 network blackout brought down critical services for millions of Canadians, including government, banking and emergency services in some cases. This week, the regulator announced the launch of the first of a number of proceedings on telecom network resiliency, the first of which will include mandatory notification requirements on all service providers when outages like these happen. As part...