Rogers to invest C$10 billion in AI, testing after massive outage

– Rogers Communications Inc mentioned on Sunday it'll make investments C$10 billion ($7.74 billion) over the subsequent three years in Synthetic Intelligence (AI), and extra testing and oversight, simply weeks after the corporate reported community points that prompted widespread disruptions throughout the nation.

Chief Government Officer Tony Staffieri mentioned the Canadian telecom operator has made progress on a proper settlement between carriers to modify 911 calls to one another’s networks routinely – even within the occasion of an outage on any provider’s community.

“I imagine that is the one accountable means ahead and I'm personally dedicated to creating it potential for all Canadians,” Staffieri mentioned in a letter on Sunday. (https://roge.rs/3zu3iU4)

Staffieri mentioned that the corporate is bodily separating wi-fi and web companies to create an ‘at all times on’ community – to assist make sure that the shoppers don’t expertise an outage with each mobile and web companies once more.

Earlier this month, the operator that has about 10 million wi-fi subscribers and a pair of.25 million retail web subscribers, suffered a glitch that lasted practically 19 hours, disrupting companies from flights to banking and emergency 911 calls.

The Canadian authorities has additionally ordered a probe and demanded telecoms corporations agree inside 60 days to develop communication protocols to maintain folks higher knowledgeable.

($1 = 1.2914 Canadian dollars)

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