Carrier hiccups giving buyers grief on iPhone 5 launch day

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We've been through iPhone launches before so one would think that Canadian carriers would have figured out how to compensate for the demand of new signups.

Walking through the downtown core today we saw that a Telus store had closed its doors to customers because of a nationwide outage that hit at 7:30 in the morning and that hasn't yet been resolved. The Telus outage seems to have affected their website with users being unable to access their accounts. The issue was resolved late in the afternoon.

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