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Internet service provider TekSavvy says many regions in Ontario are experiencing an outage.

The company posted about a “widespread cable outage” on social media while thanking customers for their patience.

“We are working with our vendor to get the problem resolved ASAP. No [estimated time of return] at this time,” the company posted on its customer service Twitter account Friday evening.

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“We realize that some of you are having trouble calling in, as our phone lines are being overloaded. We are currently looking into that as well!”

According to a maintenance and outage map on the TekSavvy website, it outage happened at around 6:45 p.m. Everywhere in the province south of the Sudbury area was marked as being impacted on the map.

Hi again everyone, we realize that some of you are having trouble calling in, as our phone lines are being overloaded. We are currently looking into that as well!

If you are in one of the affected cable areas, please note we will continue to update you here too! -am — TekSavvy Assistance (@TekSavvyCSR) August 10, 2019

Hi Simon, we currently have a widespread cable outage impacting many Ontario regions. We are working with our vendor to get the problem resolved ASAP. No ETR at this time. Thanks for your patience. -am — TekSavvy Assistance (@TekSavvyCSR) August 9, 2019