CIEIR BREAKING NEWS: Rogers Outage

This is a special report as it only follows one topic. Sudden events that have transpired will on this day forth be done in separate articles. So what better way to start than the events that transpired yesterday.

As most know or don't know on July 8 2022, there has been a massive nation wide outage of internet, cable and phone service from the Canadian company known as Rogers. Anyone who has had service from Rogers themselves, including their sub companies such as the cell phone companies Chatr and Fido, was without service for the entire day. Including yours truly.

As a result not only were individual customers affected, but businesses that use Rogers for their service have been reduced to taking only cash and credit as online banking and wireless transactions through ABMs, have been shut down.

While the cause is currently unknown and under investigation, many have debated on what could have happened. Debates, rumors and conspiracy theories, including but not limited the possibility that this was a cyber attack. Many of which even going so far as blaming Russia and Putin, accusing him of retaliating for our share of aid in Ukraine.

While I have not 100% certainty, I myself believe it to be either that or Rogers simply being a shitty company. The other services were still intact, such as Bell, Telus and so on, but yet Rogers is not only the only one affected, but it seems too convenient that of all the companies to attack, they attack the one that 90% of Canada depends on for their personal and professional lives.

That being said, this should be a valuable lesson for one to learn. Never be overdependent on the internet, for it may go away soon and you wouldn't know what to do with yourself when it does.

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