On 2017-08-16 18:29, Christopher Morrell wrote:
Let’s not forget that all POTS and cell service was offline during the outage - even for local and 911 service.
It would be interesting to know how incumbent telco services within Aliant territory became dependent on a link to central Canada. Whenh on dials 911 in Moncton, does it require some database inquiry to some database in Toronto, failing which, the call can't go through? (Aliant, which used to be separate maritime telcos was bought lock stock and barrel by Bell Canada a couple years ago, so likely rationlized some services to save costs, so anything that became dependent on some Toronto server would stop working) The CRTC asked Bell for a report on what happened, but told media that report may not be made public.