Level 3 goes to Level 0 for American VoIP peeps Backbone carrier Level 3 says it is investigating the cause of an outage that took out its services in North America. A spokesperson for the network provider told El Reg that the issue was resolved by 8:30am US Pacific time. The problems largely affected Level 3 VoIP and phone services in the East Coast and Midwest regions. A …
Okay, so your phrasing, "for much of the US and Canada," is a little off. A part of the GTA and a small portion of south western Ontario decidedly does not represent "much of [...] Canada".
Even if you're being liberal with the phrasing, that area represents less than 10% of the population, and a very tiny percentage of the landmass.
Given that OVH is one of the very largest hosting providers in the world (especially free or cheap hosting, thus they have more than their share of miscreants as customers), and given that Level3 operates one of the very largest "Tier one" transit networks in the world - statistical probability suggests that yes, it was probably a coincidence.
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