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For me, it was both the wired home internet which is TekSavvy as well as mobile phone which is on Fido. Both TekSavvy and Fido rely on Rogers behind the scenes.

Ours came back at around 2am EST.

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For me, teksavy (wired home internet) never went down at all. Cell phone (fido) came back up sometime when i was sleeping last night/early morning. I am in vancouver.

that's because your teksavvy service is over Shaw or Telus lines. This outage was out of Teksavvy's hands: if you were in their Rogers-based territory on DOCSIS, you were down with the ship.

You left out Bell... does Rogers basically never lease lines from Bell? Or it depends a great deal on location? (everything you said is correct afaict btw)

they do (well, Teksavvy leases Bell lines), just not in vancouver!

AFAIK, Rogers doesn't lease Bell lines ever, not for home internet anything anyway.

I have Teksavvy via Cogeco and had no issues (obviously). I just discovered Rogers owns 41% of their shares though :|

don't worry, as with Shaw and Rogers, Audet family controls the votes through supervoting shares. This isn't a democracy.

Rogers only has 13% control of Cogeco itself: https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht043.pdf

I want more info, please email me. I put address in my HN proflie

What more info do you want?

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