Rogers outage: Champagne says he convened meeting with heads of technology companies

During a standing committee meeting in the House of Commons into the Canada-wide Rogers Communications Internet and cellular phone outage on July 8, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada François-Philippe Champagne testified that he convened a meeting with the heads of all the major technology companies in Canada demanding they enter a binding agreement to improve network resiliency and reliability.

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