The Financial Post reports in its Thursday edition that a widespread Bell Canada outage hit tens of thousands of users across Central and Atlantic Canada early Wednesday due to a "technical issue." The Post's Serah Louis writes that as of 10 a.m. ET, nearly 140,000 users reported issues with Internet services through Bell Canada, according to the site Downdetector. Most of the outages appeared to originate from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Nearly 60 per cent of those reports indicated issues with landline Internet, with about 30 per cent indicating total blackouts and 12 per cent noting problems with mobile Internet. Bell's Tianna Goguen confirmed that some of the company's routers were affected due to an update, but services were "fully restored" as of 11 a.m. ET after rolling back the update. "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," Ms. Goguen said in a statement. "Our network teams are conducting a full review." After a major Rogers Communications outage in 2022, about a dozen Canadian telcos agreed to work together to provide emergency roaming, mutual assistance and communications.