No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure Remote communities suffer total loss of communications after fires damage critical fibre optic cables Shortly before sunset on Friday, residents of Canada’s Yukon territory discovered their connection to the outside world had vanished. Internet access had gone. Mobile phones showed no signal. Landlines had failed. Chaos quickly set in. Electronic payments couldn’t be processed. In Whitehorse, the… |
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