Bell users experience widespread outage across Central and Atlantic Canada
Posted by possibly_oblivious@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 51 comments
Posted by possibly_oblivious@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 51 comments
Dont-mind-mush21@reddit
Bell? As in land lines? I wonder if it’s part of the phasing out of land lines by 2026.
possibly_oblivious@reddit (OP)
bell and telus are cell carriers in other places in canada afaik but telus offers landline service for sure
possibly_oblivious@reddit (OP)
Seeing telecommunications going down in various countries recently
PureLock33@reddit
Probably bad firmware updates.
Silly_Goose24_7@reddit
A phone company in WI called cellcom had a bad hack. No one's cell phones were working for almost a week. They just fixed it yesterday I think.
Fine-Ask-41@reddit
Still can’t make calls 8 days later. Cellcom owned they were hacked. Also can’t port our numbers out.
Hailsabrina@reddit
Yup my boss was complaining about the outage . It was a hack definitely strange
nakedrickjames@reddit
FYI it was a lot more than cellphones.
Shesmashin@reddit
Probably the new US administration testing out their toys
SpotResident6135@reddit
Or maybe Israel?
Shesmashin@reddit
Doubt it. Can’t really say for sure, but the timeline matches better with the new administration dipping their toes into our more secret tech that have these capabilities.
Could say that either Russia or Israel feels emboldened to attempt these attacks because of the US’s sudden turn towards the axis. But I doubt it’s Russia because they could have always done these attacks if they wanted and theyre currently at war. Doubt it’s Israel because I don’t think they have the capability to do multination telecom hacking.
SpotResident6135@reddit
I dunno…
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/uk-canada-france-threaten-israel-with-concrete-actions-over-gaza-2025-05-20/
Shesmashin@reddit
It’s possible. But america very bad now
GreatBigJerk@reddit
More than one bad country exists.
SpotResident6135@reddit
Well we’ve always been bad. We just kind of went mask off recently. Just like Israel.
Shesmashin@reddit
But we at least were a different kind of bad. Nice to our allies and whatnot. Now we are actively looking to go to war against our allies and cybercom attacks are just a first step in the ladder towards waging a military war.
SpotResident6135@reddit
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”
Henry Kissinger
Shesmashin@reddit
Unless that guy was able to foresee trump winning 60 years after he said that, and him tearing down everything that past generations of American presidents worked towards by becoming an ultra isolationist, it was pretty dang good to be an ally of the US.
SpotResident6135@reddit
Not at all, it’s just that Trump is the most American president ever. He just doesn’t hide it. We have a long history of betraying our “friends”
Shesmashin@reddit
I disagree that he’s the most American president ever. He represents the darkest parts of us, yes. But to say he’s the most American president ever because he represents exactly half of ourselves, both demographically and internally, is ridiculous.
Nevermind the fact that why we are here is because of the long term coup that republicans and eventually, the Russians, engaged upon us. And the voting disenfranchisement that negated the voices of the best of us.
SpotResident6135@reddit
We don’t have to agree.
neuroticsponge@reddit
Maybe I was just out of the loop on this issue but it seems like this is happening quite frequently now. Two times could be a coincidence, but if it happens to a third country it’s going to start to look odd.
More and more it’s seeming like blackouts and communications system failures should be high on the priority list for preparing.
c3corvette@reddit
I have starlink for camping and plan to use it if regular lines go down, but I fear it may become saturated and unusable.
I recently got a prepper disk and think it could be really useful, though admittedly you could make your own for much less if your willing to put the time into it.
Im not sure what else we can really do besides having a land based ISP, cellular, and starlink. When the ISPs running the backbone are impacted things are just down.
grummanae@reddit
... The fact of the matter is with this issue Especially in Canada
You may have a different provider say TekSavvy or Virgin or Oxio or Distributel, that does not save you
In Canada the major Telecoms Bell Telus Roger's Cogeco etc own all the physical infrastructure
So you may have TekSavvy based Cable or DSL and if Roger's or Cogeco or Bell go down ... you're in an outage too
If you absolutely need 100% uptime you need to pick 2 if not 3 separate services
So Bell, Cogeco, and an LTE Hotspot are your best options
I would avoid starlink .... based on the CEO and his right lean political views, as he would no shit sell any information out to law enforcement etc
Unfair_Bunch519@reddit
Always have your router hooked to a solar power generator. A laptop charger provides a silent trickle charge and they make a special DC power adapter for any proprietary sockets a router may have. Running it on DC off the generator will give you three times more usage than using the AC socket
therapistofcats@reddit
Why? If the ISP is down having a powered router is useless unless you have your own intranet.
Unfair_Bunch519@reddit
Then do the same thing for a mesh network or have a Sat phone backup
Snark_Connoisseur@reddit
mesh networks and solar generators are the move 💯
Mysterious-Action202@reddit
Happened a year ago in the US with all 3 major providers hit with outages.
SpotResident6135@reddit
Didn’t Canada and Spain recently criticize the genocide?
undertheclouds3@reddit
rbc told me i couldn’t take money out at the machine bc their internet isn’t working
undertheclouds3@reddit
not like this. this is like when it happened with roger’s except this time it feels planned.
rodimustso@reddit
They did a merger 2? years ago and integration has had a lot of ... bumps to put it one way. Not as crazy as it seems, company grew so outages grew bigger when they happen now .... still not good but ....
Honest_Persimmon_859@reddit
Realistically, the biggest lesson to be learned here is to have some sort of backup communications figured out ahead of time. This shit just happened in Spain the other day, too, and regardless of what caused it, if it's becoming this common for random firmware updates to cause this level of comms outages then we should all be aware of how easily an error by someone else somewhere far away that we can't prevent or predict ahead of time could cause our phones to go out one day with no warning. Like, if the phones go out, you might be fine the 99% of the time that you don't need to make a phone call, but if the phones go out and then something happens where you need to call an ambulance, suddenly that phone outage could be a life-and-death matter.
therapistofcats@reddit
Update:
"Bell conducted an update that impacted some of our routers. We rolled back the update to quickly restore services," a spokesperson for the company told CBC News. "We want to assure our customers and partners that this was a technical issue and we have ruled out a cybersecurity incident as the root cause."
"Our network teams are conducting a full review to ensure that this situation doesn't happen again. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and thank customers for their patience."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-canada-service-outage-1.7539810
Guess it wasn't Russia, China, Iran, or Israel...just our own incompetence like usual. Oh well. Surely this sub will accept the evidence provided and not just keep on with the conspiracy theories.
GuiltyYams@reddit
This post needs to be stickied at the top, to save readers the trouble of scrolling past a bunch of nonsense "Russia!!!" posts to discover the actual facts.
possibly_oblivious@reddit (OP)
It was russia!
Apprehensive_Roll897@reddit
Received an alert just before the communications Network went down. This is probably not a coincidence.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-141a
just_be123@reddit
It was done for maybe an hour or two. If it were something more serious wouldn’t it be days or weeks (if not longer)?
Delli-paper@reddit
The pattern continues:
therapistofcats@reddit
Yes...EU and UK sanction Russia...so they have Central and Atlantic Canada. Makes sense to me.
Delli-paper@reddit
If Canada was considering signing on before, they certainly are not now.
therapistofcats@reddit
Spain literally said yesterday was due to an update issue.
SpotResident6135@reddit
Didn’t Canada also recently criticize Israel?
Competitiveweird6363@reddit
Yep just like Spain did and they had an outage soon after. People thinking cyber attacks aren't that likely need to wake up.
Shesmashin@reddit
Probably the new administration testing out their toys. Unlikely that Russia is capable of such attacks.
BardanoBois@reddit
You guys are going way too far with this one. Rogers one more than 2 years ago was worse. I literally could not even pay with card at Union Station because payment systems were down.
This is a nothing burger because only internet is down..
Competitiveweird6363@reddit
Scotia Bank app is also down wonder if it's because of the bell outage. I remember when the Roger's outage happened unless you had cash you were screwed to go into any store.
x058394446@reddit
When I was in high school I lost my wallet when I went out one night and had nothing. I had to walk back four plus hours. After that night I put a twenty in each of my jeans where the little coin thing is. When this outage hit I was saved by the few hundred I had or it would have been a miserable time for me…
SpotResident6135@reddit
Didn’t they just criticize Israel?
therapistofcats@reddit
I am just here to watch the speculations. Humans love to see patterns in everything.