Many Atlantic Canadians lose cellphone, internet service in widespread outage
HALIFAX — Much of Atlantic Canada lost cellphone and other network services for more than four hours Friday, inconveniencing citizens and commerce alike, after what Bell called “accidental damage” to its fibre optic grid.
Bell said its “major service outage” hit internet, TV, wireless and landline phones, with landline 911 service intermittent.
In St. John’s, N.L., Lauren Halliday said the outage came at a particularly bad time for her family as her sister was at home and expected to go into labour at any time.
“My sister is supposed to have a baby today or tomorrow so we were kind of sweating about that, making sure that she had a car to get to the hospital and stuff,” she said in an interview on Friday.