https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxn5jb/canadians-flock-to-coffee-shops-as-major-telecom-rogers-suffers-outage

Canada, despite being much larger geographically than its southern neighbor, is a very small place. Three major companies—the "Big Three," Rogers, Bell, and Telus—make up our telecommunications infrastructure, which can result in a quasi-post-apocalyptic scenario if any one of them should run into a problem. Case in point: This morning, I, a Rogers customer, woke up with both no cell coverage and no internet service.

I'm far from alone in this predicament: On Friday morning, Rogers experienced a nationwide service outage that affected Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and areas on the East Coast as well. Besides no cell or internet service, nobody seems to be able to accept debit cards—cash or credit only—and the Toronto Police Service warned about issues affecting 911 calls. Rogers acknowledged the situation in a tweet just before 9 a.m., but I didn't see it, because I didn't have any internet or cell service.