May 21 (Reuters) - An outage that left tens of thousands

of Bell Canada customers without internet access in the

provinces of Quebec and Ontario began easing on Wednesday as the

company moved to restore service.

The outage started around 9 a.m. ET and triggered more than

130,000 disruption reports at its peak, according to tracking

website Downdetector.com. The number of reports came down to

around 4,000 by 10:44 a.m. ET.

Bell, a unit of BCE, said it was working to restore

the "service as quickly as possible."

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from

a number of sources, including user-submitted reports.

The actual number of affected users may vary.