<story><title>Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomComb</author><text>People in other countries probably don&amp;#x27;t understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada.&lt;p&gt;They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn&amp;#x27;t compete - but they are omnipresent here.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of people who depend on Rogers for home Internet, home phone, mobile phone, TV, and home security, not to mention business services that consumers also depend on, like the payment networks that are down.&lt;p&gt;Plus their media properties, which probably come in useful when the government starts to think about allowing more competition or decreasing the taxpayer money being funneled to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>I work in telecom and tell this to nearly everyone who asks me about Canada, and its ISP&amp;#x2F;telecom market and competition...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Canada is an endangered species protection wildlife reserve park for dinosaur telecoms&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a travesty that the government is actually going to let Shaw and Rogers merge to even further concentrate power in the hands of a few families and reduce market competition.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomComb</author><text>People in other countries probably don&amp;#x27;t understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada.&lt;p&gt;They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn&amp;#x27;t compete - but they are omnipresent here.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of people who depend on Rogers for home Internet, home phone, mobile phone, TV, and home security, not to mention business services that consumers also depend on, like the payment networks that are down.&lt;p&gt;Plus their media properties, which probably come in useful when the government starts to think about allowing more competition or decreasing the taxpayer money being funneled to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsatic</author><text>Most people also don&amp;#x27;t realize telcos rake in more revenue than the entire tech sector. And that it is no where close to enough to maintain or upgrade the pipes. Cloud has been built on lot of assumptions that are close to breaking point.</text></comment>