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HALIFAX — Cellphone service has gone down in large swaths of Atlantic Canada, hampering many emergency services’ communications.

A Bell map indicates outages in Halifax, St. John’s, N.L., Ottawa, Toronto, Saint John, N.B., and Fredericton, among other places.

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Social media reports indicate the outages are not confined to Bell, and P.E.I. is also affected.

“This appears to be a widespread outage,” the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said in a tweet.