Bell, Telus use easy in Atlantic Canada

A widespread landline and cellphone outage that hit Bell’s network in Atlantic Canada and disrupted atmosphere transport opposite a segment was caused by random repairs to twine lines. 

Bell Aliant said the outage affected internet, wireless, radio and landline phone services, and began around 11:20 a.m. AT Friday. The association pronounced use was fully restored after repairs to a infrastructure around 4 p.m. AT. 

“The outage was caused by random repairs to mixed twine network links. Bell apologizes to a business for a disruption,” pronounced Nathan Gibson, a orator for Bell Canada, a primogenitor association of Bell Aliant.

Later Friday Bell Canada pronounced on Twitter that dual vital twine links had been cut during third-party construction work.

Have a smashing weekend, we’ll be behind Tuesday!

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@Bell_Aliant

Telus, that shares dungeon towers with Bell, said a cut wire caused a outage and affected 885 dungeon sites opposite Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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

A standing refurbish from Telus indicated a repairs to a shop-worn twine cable took place in Drummondville, Que.  

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

Airports in all 4 Atlantic provinces pronounced some flights in and out of a segment were influenced by a outages. Dozens of flights were listed as behind even after use was easy to many customers.

Lines shaped when Air Canada’s mechanism complement went down as passengers waited to be checked in manually. 

CBC’s Julian Brown was in a Halifax airfield mid-afternoon and described a conditions as “pandemonium,” with hundreds of people watchful for service. 

Big news for @AirCanada passengers in lineup during @stjohnsairport: a pizza has arrived and people are digging in. #cbcnl pic.twitter.com/T7R7ERAXvD

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@TRobertst

Staff from Air Canada were flitting out coffee, food and H2O to watchful passengers in Halifax. In St. John’s, Air Canada staff systematic pizza for people stranded in line.

The airline pronounced “ongoing mechanism problems” were inspiring use opposite a region. It is advising business they can rebook online though additional charges. 

2/3: All systems are behind adult and regulating though passengers should design delays and some cancellations for a residue of a day.

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@HfxStanfield

Westjet said its Moncton, N.B., contact centre went down since of a outage. The association asked people not to call this afternoon unless it was urgent.

Not all phone use was cut off. Eastlink said its use was not affected, though business could knowledge problems calling people on other networks. Rogers pronounced a use and Fido’s was not affected. 

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

Some businesses and banks sealed due to problems handling credit and withdraw machines.

TD Canada Trust and Scotiabank sealed several branches since of a use intrusion and some retailers such as Walmart were usually holding cash.

And Scotiabank in Gander sealed completely. #cbcnl pic.twitter.com/9AZ1DC1oZY

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@GarrettBarry

Emergency services across a segment reacted to a outage, issuing statements asking people to use landlines to hit them if necessary. 

Officials in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick pronounced a 911 use itself was not affected, though people though use competence not have been means to call.

Mid-afternoon, Bell pronounced a wireless 911 use was operative but landline 911 use was “intermittent.”  

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Halifax Regional Police and Cape Breton Regional Police said they were able to respond to calls entrance in by 911 and their non-emergency lines.

Paul Mason, executive of puncture services with Nova Scotia’s Emergency Management Office, said 911 operates on a “distinct network from a unchanging write system.” 

He pronounced he didn’t know of any cases where someone indispensable assistance and wasn’t means to accept it. 

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

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

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A orator for P.E.I Public Safety pronounced people though use in need of 911 services could use a puncture call underline on their phone, which would bond them to a operative dungeon building from another provider.

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

In response to a outages, 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.

One rural RCMP detachment in Nova Scotia relocated to a circuitously gas hire and Robin’s Donuts for an hour during a outage. Cpl. Dal Hutchinson pronounced officers in the Guysborough District spent at hour there to safeguard they were tighten to operative phones.

They moved to a metropolitan office before returning to a detachment, he said. 

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

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@nsemo

 

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. 

Brendan Elliot, a orator for a Halifax Regional Municipality, pronounced backup skeleton were instituted when a glow department’s mobile radio complement and pager system went down

“We were environment adult mobile dispatch centres around a municipality inside glow stations where we knew we had a approach line to a dispatch service,” he said.      

***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

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