I'm sure everyone in Canada knows about this.. Rogers cable internet and cell phone service were both out all day yesterday knocking out service of both for many millions of Canadians and anyone else relying on their networking like banks, ATMs, businesses, etc.

Thing I don't understand is how cable internet and cell phone service could be linked in any way except being run/owned by the same company. Perhaps someone with greater networking knowledge than I could explain what both of those services could share that would bring both of them down at the same time.

I've asked in other Rogers related forums and googled away but no one has been able to say anything more than they both share the same network.

I'd like to know how they share the same network. My cable internet comes in on the decades old copper in my bldg via cables that were installed across the city a long time ago and my cell phone, of course, is transmitted/received by towers that were installed much more recently.

I find it difficult to imagine where, along the line, they are mingled together before they're sent on their merry way to my modem and my cell phone.

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2022/07/...ternet-outage/

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33446262-