Bell, Telus phone use being easy in tools of Atlantic region

Widespread landline and cellphone outages strike Bell’s network in Atlantic Canada for several hours Friday, slicing off some users from 911 use and impacting military and paramedics in a region. 

Service started being easy to some business around 2:45 p.m. AT. It’s misleading when full use will be restored. 

Telus shares dungeon towers with Bell and pronounced a means of a outage was identified as a cut cable, inspiring 885 LTE dungeon sites opposite Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Newfoundland. The association is posting updates on a use interruption.

Bell Aliant says a outage impacted internet, wireless, radio and landline phone services, and began during around 11:20 AT. 

Users of Virgin and Koodo, that also use Bell’s towers, were also affected.

Major Bell Internet, wireless, TV, landline outage in Atlantic. Wireless 911 operational. We apologize and are operative to revive service.

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@Bell_Aliant

Bell says a wireless 911 use is operative though landline 911 “is intermittent.” 

“Bell apologizes for this conditions and we are operative to revive use as fast as possible,” pronounced Nathan Gibson, a orator for Bell Canada, a primogenitor association of Bell Aliant. 

If you’re perplexing to hit your internal RCMP unconcern and can’t get through, call 1-800-272-9569 or 902-893-1323.

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@RCMPNS

Eastlink says a use is not impacted though business competence knowledge problems if they are perplexing to call people on other networks. Rogers says a use and Fido’s was not affected. 

Emergency use organizations opposite a segment have been seeking people to use landlines to hit them in puncture situations. 

Officials in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick contend 911 use itself is not being impacted, though people whose phones are down competence not be means to call.

2/2 We need all on-duty crews to immediately lapse to your station. Monitor your tablets from a hire for calls. #EHSOutageAug417

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@EHS_NS

Halifax Regional Police and Cape Breton Regional Police contend they are means to respond to calls entrance in by 911 and their non-emergency lines.

In Prince Edward Island, RCMP are also advising people to call their non-emergency landlines.

A orator for P.E.I Public Safety pronounced people though use who need 911 services will need to use a puncture call underline on their phone. That will bond them to a operative dungeon building from another provider.

We’re seeking all proffer firefighters to news to unstaffed stations ASAP.

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@hfxfire

Friday morning Nova Scotia’s Emergency Health Services systematic all ambulances and on-duty crews to lapse to their stations and guard their tablets for puncture calls.

Halifax Fire also systematic all proffer firefighters to news to unstaffed stations to make it easier for dispatch to strech them and for people who competence go directly there for help. 

Huge acclaim here during airport. Apparently @AirCanada complement behind adult and running. Let’s see how prolonged this takes to get out of here. pic.twitter.com/7FDjTCZJ2W

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@CBCharlsie

Cape Breton military contend they are also regulating a backup radio complement to promulgate and are advising people to hit them around landlines.

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Atlantic Canada phone outage is inspiring airlines, greatfully be wakeful that we competence knowledge delays today.

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@yfcairport

Airports in all 4 Atlantic provinces contend some flights in and out of a segment are influenced by a outages. Dozens of flights are listed as delayed. People are suggested to check with their airlines.

CBC’s Julian Brown was in a Halifax airfield and described a conditions as “pandemonium,” with hundreds of people lined adult to check in. 

Staff from Air Canada were flitting out food and H2O to watchful passengers, reported CBC’s Charlsie Agro.

Dozens of flights were behind and hundreds of people were backing adult to be checked in manually. (Andrew Brown/CBC)

Air Canada says “ongoing mechanism problems” are inspiring use opposite a region.

Westjet says a Moncton hit centre is down since of a outage. The association is seeking people not to call this afternoon unless it is urgent. 

Hundreds of people were watchful to be checked in during a Halifax International Airport. (Andrew Brown/CBC)

911 is still operative though a best approach to strech it right now is a land line.

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@nsemo

Casino Taxi in Halifax says a systems are unblushing since they are on Rogers. A runner for Yellow Cab pronounced a association is experiencing use problem on comment of their dispatch complement regulating on Bell Aliant. The problems are fluctuating to a debt/credit label machines in drivers’ cars.  

People who are means to bond to Wi-Fi competence be means to make calls regulating Facetime on iPhone, Facebook Messenger or other Internet-based job services. 

***URGENT*** MAJOR PHONE PROBLEM IN METRO – SOME LANDLINES/MOBILE NOT ABLE TO CALL 911 OR OUR NON-EMERG’S + “NO SERVICE” ON MOBILE PHONES

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@RNC_PoliceNL

A mobile complement outage is inspiring some phone conduit use in the area – if we need to hit 911 we need to find a landline.

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@OromoctoFD

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bell-telus-phone-service-atlantic-provinces-1.4235224?cmp=rss