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Canadian telecom Rogers is suffering a major outage affecting landline phones, cellular connections, and internet connectivity throughout Canada that started early this morning. Downdetector<\/a> listed thousands of reports for the issues that flooded in as people started to get up around 5AM ET and couldn\u2019t get online. <\/p>\n

Rogers first addressed the outage in a tweet<\/a> from its official support account just before 9AM ET and then went silent for a couple of hours. On Friday afternoon, the company tweeted<\/a> that its technical teams are working to restore services \u201calongside our global technology partners, and are making progress.\u201d <\/p>\n

Late Friday evening, Rogers CEO & President Tony Staffieri posted a letter to Canadians<\/a> on the company website.<\/p>\n

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Dear Canadians,<\/p>\n

We know you count on Rogers to connect you to emergency services, make payments, serve your customers, connect with work and keep in touch with friends and family. We take that responsibility very seriously and today we let you down. We can and will do better. <\/p>\n

As you know, we experienced a network outage across both wireless and wireline service that began early this morning. <\/p>\n

We have made meaningful progress towards bringing our networks back online and many of our wireless customers are starting to see services return. We don\u2019t yet have an ETA on when our networks will be fully restored but will we continue to share information with our customers as we restore full service.<\/p>\n

We know going a full day without connectivity has real impacts on our customers, and all Canadians. On behalf of all of us here at Rogers, Rogers for Business, Fido, chatr and cityfone, I want to sincerely apologize for this service interruption and the impact it is having on people from coast to coast to coast.<\/p>\n

As our teams continue working to resolve the situation, I want to make two commitments to you:<\/p>\n

First, we are working to fully understand the root cause of this outage and we will make all the changes necessary to ensure that in the future we meet and exceed your expectations for our networks.<\/p>\n

Second, we will make this right for our valued customers. We will proactively apply a credit to all our customers impacted by the outage and will share more details shortly.<\/p>\n

I take full responsibility for ensuring we at Rogers earn back your full trust, and are once again there to connect you to what matters.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Tony Staffieri<\/p>\n

President and CEO<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is still no ETA for full restoration. In another tweet<\/a>, the company promised that it would be \u201cproactively crediting all customers,\u201d and said that it had \u201cevery technical resource and partner\u201d working on getting its network back up.<\/p>\n

The CBC reported Friday evening<\/a> that people are starting to see their home internet and wireless services return, while Cloudflare Radar data shows traffic is beginning to flow to and from the Rogers network again, although still not anywhere near the usual levels.<\/p>\n

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Cloudflare Radar data captured at 11:30PM ET shows internet traffic with Rogers dropping to zero early Friday morning, then beginning to rise as services were restored in the evening.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Cloudflare<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

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The data from Cloudflare<\/a>, a content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company that helps many highly-trafficked sites manage their operations, shows communication between its load-sharing network and Rogers in Canada exhibiting its normal nightly pattern before dropping to essentially zero at around 3\u20134AM ET and registering a flat line ever since. At that same time, there was a massive spike in BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) announcements for the network that indicate changes in routing.<\/p>\n

In a blog post published Friday afternoon<\/a>, Cloudflare personnel speculated that the outage is the result of an internal error at Rogers, as opposed to a cyberattack or other cause. They cited that pattern of BGP announcements, noting that with the Rogers network now failing to announce its presence, the rest of the internet can\u2019t find it. BGP is a fundamental part of the technology that helps move information from one place on the internet to another, and a problem with BGP routing information was the cause of a massive Facebook network outage last fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n