People in Toronto are flocking to Starbucks to use wifi as Rogers outage continues Toronto Rogers Starbucks
The disruption started around 5 a.m. Friday across Canada, with dead zones persisting across the GTA, Montreal, Winnipeg and the east coast, impacting more than 20,000 customers.
Multiple Starbucks stores in downtown Toronto are more packed than usual, with people congregating outside to use the free wifi. Groups have formed outside of a number of outposts, with tons of people cramming the tables inside, sitting on the patio on their laptops or simply standing around outside within a cafe's wifi range.
The Queen and John, Adelaide and Peter, and Richmond and Spadina stores were visibly quite packed as of around noon on Friday, with staff having to repeatedly explain the situation to customers trying to pay by card.
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