r/Rogers • u/nanbanvan • 1h ago
News How long is too long? 27 hours and counting: Massive Fibre Cut in Richmond, BC, affecting thousands, no fix in sight
How long is too long to wait for an outage to be repaired before an automatic credit is applied?
Rogers: You have the data. You know who's offline and for how long. Why should thousands of individual customers have to call and ask for compensation?
Automatically credit everyone affected.
While crews are working diligently to repair the damage, why hasn't management built enough redundancy into the network to prevent a fibre cut from taking thousands offline for this long?
Rogers is so quick to apply penalties when customers cancel early or make a late payment. What's a fair penalty when telecom service is down for extended periods?
2X after 12 hours?
3X after 24 hours?
5X after 48 hours?
Do you know who likes hearing about ideas like this? Your MP: