It's not possible to pay with debit card in Canada because Interac is down, because Rogers is down. Many atm across the country aren't working.

It's not just Rogers' client who are impacted, the whole banking ecosystem is impacted.

Even rumors that Costco can only accept cash, the Capital One Mastercard network might be down.

I don't see how Rogers could keep quiet on this, unless it's from some malicious actor.

> I don't see how Rogers could keep quiet on this, unless it's from some malicious actor.

Canada will get the same action on this as Americans do about mass shootings. “Thoughts and Prayers”.

Have you ever seen any similar company give meaningful updates in a situation like this?

It is odd they don't have PR people trying to spin it. But I am not surprised in the slightest that there is no technically useful updates happening.

If you are already the most hated company in Canada, why do you need to bother spinning anything or trying?

Indeed, I can easily see them get dragged before a parliamentary inquiry.

Do those happen before or after the beer drinking with the regulators?

These seem to occur rarely. Unlike US Senate inquiries, Parliament seems to be less aggressive about these, reserving them for things like indigenous issues. Quite disappointing IMO.

> I don't see how Rogers could keep quiet on this

My sweet summer child, you have no seen how meek and docile Canadians are.

They'll take a page from the Federal Liberals, spout a bunch of unrelated platitudes and nothingness, and pretend nothing happened.

The oligarchs control Canada and the Federal Liberals are just a finger in their hand. There will be no inquiry from regulators - what's more - they'll rubber stamp the Rogers - Shaw merger that's been in the works.

If Canadians say anything, Bill C-11 will be ready to squelch them online. If they say anything in person, a quick speech from Trudeau calling them foreign-funded MAGA terrorists will cause the government-funded CBC to produce an article. That article will then be used by the Trudeau Liberals to invoke the Emergency Act once more, then de-bank and trample them.

I would say if you want to engage in the process of dialogue, don't bring a large cache of firearms with you while blocking an international border crossing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...

Which has nothing to do with the ottawa protests? Are we pretending that they suspended the charter because of that single event in manitoba now?

> I’m sure Rogers will be forced to do a post-mortem for large commercial clients where contractually required, but I highly doubt we will hear a word from them about the cause of this or what was/is being done to rectify it. They probably have an ETA but feel no obligation to share it.

I'm sure there'll be industry wide participation in a post-mortem. Translation for non-Canadians... The head of the CRTC will book a tee time for him plus the CEOs of Rogers, Bell, and Telus.

I see so many people get these two conflated, across the board, any time something like this happens. Some big leak or outage or whatever.

The shocking part is not that they are giving no updates. Everyone is to expect that. The shocking part is that we (collectively) don't care that they give no updates, and let them get away with it.

What actionable steps can consumers perform?

The French People walk for less reason. (J/K they only walk for serious issues)

This outage is way too disruptive for polite exchanges of platitudes.

The public have to make their point of view high-key known. The public should respond so strongly that the other companies start saying things in public. Then the rich will get queasy and ask themselves, what do we have to do to buy back social peace?

This is probably the best question that can be asked.

Vote with our wallet? C'mon, what else?

>What actionable steps can consumers perform?

> it represents major risk to the Canadian economy.

I actually think this outage will show that there's no major risk to the economy and every Canadian can just take every Friday off with no ill effects.

Agreed, although, Rogers has had notably more vaguely explained outages. With this, if the CRTC does not revise their decision to let Rogers acquire Shaw (CRTC 2022-76), then, as Canadians, we must expect to continue to overpay for shotty telecoms. But hey, there's maple sirup and affordable health care.