INDU to hold two meetings on Rogers outage by July’s end

By Christopher Guly OTTAWA – The House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (INDU) adopted a motion this afternoon by Liberal member of parliament Han Dong to conduct a study and hold two special meetings before month’s end to investigate the Rogers Communications Inc. outage that left an estimated 10 million wireless and 2.25 million retail internet subscribers across Canada without service. “The public is owed some answers,” said Dong, who represents the Ontario riding of Don Valley North. His motion calls on the committee to review the causes of these widespread disruptions; the impact the service outage...