Rogers spends $261 million to split the network, but cannot quantify the economic impact of the outage

Rogers Communications Inc. will now spend $261 million to separate the wireless and wired networks following the July 8 outage, and said it is unable to quantify the direct economic losses caused by the outage. out.

The comments come in an August 22 letter requested by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to provide additional information regarding the blackout affecting millions of people. Canada.

Splitting the networks was previously expected to cost $250 million.

However, the time period required to separate the networks has been redacted, along with other details on the metric.

Rogers also said in the letter that it does not have the data needed to accurately determine the economic damage caused by the outage.

In the weeks following the shutdown, Rogers said it would commit $10 billion over three years to increase monitoring, testing and use of artificial intelligence to ensure reliable service, and would spend $150 million dollars for customer credits.

This report by the Canadian Press was first published on August 25, 2022