The Rogers outage is an opportunity to change how we think about our digital infrastructure
A defining feature of that moment, though, is that the internet was only a “nice to have.” Apple’s App Store wouldn’t launch for another five years, and it was a pretty big deal to have a camera phone at the time – if you even had a cellphone.Things are very different today. Enormous advances in mobile tech have made Canada’s telecoms enormously powerful, and that power has consolidated in just five major players.
The Rogers outage took out Interac services, meaning countless payment terminals across Canada were forced offline, prompting retailers to turn away customers if they didn’t have cash. The ArriveCAN app, already
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