• Nik282000
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    124 months ago

    That says more about the disgusting state of Canadian infrastructure than in does about electronic payment. A lot of places could’t operate their POS at all without an internet connection.

    • Rentlar
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      84 months ago

      The Robelus cartel is one of the things to be shameful of as a Canadian (though the US isn’t much better).

    • @bluemite@lemmy.world
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      84 months ago

      That outage had nothing to do with Canadian infrastructure. It was caused by a maintenance upgrade that Rogers was doing.

      Unless you’re saying everyone should have backup internet connections. I’d be surprised to learn if any country has that. Given the size of Canada, that’s a lot of work to get that in place.

    • @Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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      14 months ago

      As someone who has been a network engineer, you’re completely ignorant if you think there’s anywhere on Earth that is not just a handful of stupid decisions away from a similar outage