Let's see how this goes. A political hearing will (IMO) likely not resolve in the identification of core technical issues nor meaningful changes to avoid what was experienced on July 8th. A third party conducting a real technical investigation is likely the way to find a RCA and set of recommendations.
regards, Victor K On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 8:56 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > Canada is part of North America, and may be of interest to NANOG. > > Rogers had a nationwide outage on July 8, 2022. The House of Commons > held a hearing today (July 25, 2022) on the outage and invited the Rogers > CEO, other company CEOs, regulators and academics to testify. > > Recording of the House of Commons INDU hearing > > https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU > > Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said the company now plans to physically > separate its wireless and internet networks to ensure more redundancy in > the future. Company estimates it will cost at least $250 million. > > Rogers still plans to complete the proposed $26-billion acquisition of > Shaw. The CEO claimed the greater scale of the merged companies would > allow Rogers to create seperate wireless and internet networks faster. > > CRTC chairperson said that reliability and competition are separate > issues. > > > Department of Industry > • Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister > • Éric Dagenais, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum and > Telecommunications Sector > • Mark Schaan, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategy and Innovation > Policy Sector > > Rogers Communications Inc. > • Tony Staffieri, President and Chief Executive Officer > • Ron McKenzie, Chief Technology and Information Officer > • Ted Woodhead, Chief Regulatory Officer and Government Affairs > > Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission > • Ian Scott, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer > • Fiona Gilfillan, Executive Director, Telecommunications > • Michel Murray, Director, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory > Implementation, Telecommunications > > As an individual > • Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, > Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa > • Ben Klass, PhD Candidate, Carleton University, Senior Research > Associate, Canadian Media Concentration Research Project > • Dwayne Winseck, Professor, Carleton University, Director, Global Media > and Internet Concentration Project > > Public Interest Advocacy Centre > • John Lawford, Executive Director and General Counsel > >