Cell companies should provide updates during mass outages: NDP
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"One of the major concerns I heard after Dorian was the frustration with the telecom companies for not providing information about service disruptions," says Claudia Chender, NDP Business Spokesperson. "People experienced service outages and received no information about when full service would be restored."
Chender says cell phones and internet have become as essential as power and water, and that the province needs to update their protocals to reflect this.
"While telecommunication regulation is a federal responsibility, with extreme weather becoming more common, Nova Scotians need to have confidence that they will have access to telecommunications in an emergency," says Chender in a release.
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