Software issue knocked out 911 service for several provinces last month, Bell report says
A 911 outage that lasted nearly an hour and a half in several Canadian provinces last month was caused by a previously undetected bug in Bell's software, the company said in a report on Friday.
A 911 outage lasting nearly an hour and a half affected several Canadian provinces last month. According to a report from Bell Canada, the outage was caused by a previously undetected bug in their software.
The outage affected Manitoba and four other provinces. It lasted for about 90 minutes.
The cause of the outage was a software failure, as stated in Bell Canada's report to a federal regulator, according to the Winnipeg Free Press.
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- Software glitch caused multi-provincial 911 outage: Bell winnipegfreepress.com
