Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u...
by bostonwalker on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:56PM
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This is putting it mildly. The Interac network went down and no one could use their debit cards nationwide.
Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u...
by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:17PM
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I'd put that on Interac single-homing itself without redundancy.
Their ops are critical enough you'd expect better from them.
Not the kind of shortcut Canadian banking takes for core stuff.
Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u...
by tharkun__ on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:29PM
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The funny thing there is that Interac "did" have redundancy i.e. another network provider to fall back onto.
Unfortunately they failed to notice that this was a reseller for Rogers lines.
Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u...
by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:53PM
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that explains a lot
Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u...
by twisteriffic on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:26PM
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Not all of it. My credit union's interac services still worked.
During Canada’s Rogers outage in 2022:
> In Toronto there was some dependency on Rogers. One quarter of all traffic signals relied on their cellular network for signal timing changes. The Rogers GSM network was also used to remotely monitor fire alarms and sprinklers in municipal buildings. Public parking payments and public bike services were also unavailable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...
As it was summer, I recall some park programming for kids had to be cancelled because the employees were required to have a phone capable of calling 9-1-1 (but sounds like that at least still worked here)