The House of Commons Industry and Technology committee will hold a special meeting on Friday to discuss undertaking a study on the Rogers outage.
The emergency summer hearing is the result of Liberal, Conservative, and NDP MPs all writing to the committee’s chair asking for a meeting to address the network failure last Friday, which impacted millions of households and businesses alike.
While the company confirmed on Saturday most of its system was restored to the vast majority of customers, some are still reporting problems.he and four other Liberal MPs signed, calling for an urgent meeting “so that Canadians can get vital answers to the many timely questions raised a result of these services outages.”
The committee will need to adopt a motion in order to hold further hearings. If a deeper study is agreed upon, any meeting with witnesses would likely have to take place beginning the week of July 25 because of a pre-arranged critical maintenance shutdown that House administration has said is scheduled to last until July 22.and the heads of other telecommunications service providers on Monday to discuss the issue.
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