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Google Meet Restores Service After U.S. Outage

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Google said its video-conferencing platform, Google Meet, is back online after a disruption earlier on Monday that left thousands of U.S. users unable to access sessions.

The outage caused slow interface loading and blocked users from joining meetings, according to Google. The company traced the problem to a recent change in content edge cache, which it has since rolled back.

At the peak, tracking site Downdetector logged nearly 16,400 incident reports, though the actual number of affected users could have been higher. By 2:43 p.m. ET, reports had dropped to around 600 cases.

Google confirmed the issue was resolved and apologized for the inconvenience, saying normal service has resumed.

Google Resolves Global Service Outage Affecting Multiple Platforms

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Alphabet’s Google announced on Thursday that it had resolved a brief global outage that disrupted several of its core services, including Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, and Google Voice.

The disruption also impacted third-party platforms reliant on Google Cloud infrastructure, such as music streaming service Spotify and messaging app Discord, as well as Snapchat. The outage began around 1:50 p.m. ET and caused widespread service interruptions across multiple regions.

At the peak of the outage, tracking website Downdetector.com recorded approximately 46,000 outage reports for Spotify and nearly 11,000 reports for Discord in the U.S. alone. Google Cloud’s engineering teams worked swiftly to mitigate the issue, and by 6:18 p.m. ET, outage reports had significantly decreased to just over 1,000 for Spotify and around 200 for Discord.

Google stated it will publish a detailed analysis after completing an internal investigation into the incident.

Bell Canada Restores Internet Service After Two-Hour Outage in Quebec and Ontario

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Bell Canada announced on Wednesday that it has fully restored internet services after a technical update issue caused a significant two-hour outage affecting tens of thousands of users in Quebec and Ontario.

The disruption, which began around 9:00 a.m. ET, peaked with more than 130,000 disruption reports, according to real-time outage tracker Downdetector.com. Bell confirmed that service had been completely restored by 11:00 a.m. ET.

“We want to assure our customers and partners that this was a technical issue and we have ruled out a cybersecurity incident as the root cause,” Bell said in an emailed statement.

Cause and Response

The outage stemmed from a software update that affected some of Bell’s router infrastructure. The company responded by rolling back the update, which resolved the issue.

Bell, a unit of BCE Inc., said its network teams are conducting a full review to prevent future disruptions.

Customer Impact and Instructions

Bell serves approximately 4.4 million high-speed internet subscribers, as noted in its latest quarterly report. The full scale of the outage remains unclear, but many users in eastern Canada reported service disruptions throughout the morning.

For customers still experiencing issues, Bell advised a modem reboot via a notice on its Facebook page.