Lost sales, missed doctors appointments and being stuck offline in a foreign country, Canadians share their stories with CTVNews.ca about their experiences during the Rogers network outage on Friday.
The florist from Collingwood, Ont., gets calls for everything from events and birthdays to anniversaries and gatherings.On days like that, Hitchens will typically sell out on flowers.
People also are unable to make debit payments and in some cases may have difficulty calling 911. Some are resorting to, although it remains unclear when services will be back up and running.Hitchens told CTVNews.ca that she relies on Fridays to make up for slower days earlier in the week. "… Rogers is becoming unreliable and absolutely miserable to deal with while being exorbitantly expensive for what we get."
At least two people who wrote to CTVNews.ca said they were scheduled to speak to their doctors and surgeons by phone but were unable to. Luckily, they were able to find Wi-Fi at an information centre and got directions to their Airbnb that way.
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