The federal government will soon be meeting with the head of Rogers Communications after a huge outage left thousands of customers without internet or cell service on Friday.

The federal government will soon be meeting with the head of Rogers Communications after a huge outage left thousands of customers without internet or cell service on Friday.

Industry Minister Francois-Philliple Champagne will meet with Rogers' executives to discuss the "reliability of networks across Canada.''

Champagne tweeted on Friday that the situation was unacceptable and said he was in touch with officials from Rogers, Bell and Telus to prevent these lengthy outages from occurring.