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In Canada we got a solid reminder of the importance of cash when the Rogers outage took Interac and many credit card processing systems offline...
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.
The Robelus cartel is one of the things to be shameful of as a Canadian (though the US isn't much better).
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.
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
Thats one of many times each year the card processing system (in full or in part) has gone down.
Though usually it doesn't stay down as long as that one.