Shaw Communications Restores Internet and Phone Services After Brief Outage


CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - April 27, 2017) - (TSX:SJR.B)(NYSE:SJR) -

All Internet and phone services were restored as of 4pm MT for a significant number of Shaw customers across Western Canada impacted by a brief outage this afternoon.

The outage began at 1:27pm MT today, as a result of a software failure during a routine upgrade to our network. We are further investigating the cause.

We sincerely apologize to our customers for this inconvenience.

Contact Information:

For media inquiries, please contact:
Shaw Communications Inc.
Chethan Lakshman, VP, External Affairs
(403) 930-8448
chethan.lakshman@sjrb.ca