Undetected software issue knocked out 911 for several provinces last month, Bell report says
02-10-2026 23:44 via cbc.ca

Undetected software issue knocked out 911 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.
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