One of the major communications companies in my country had a 12-hour outage recently.
No phone, no internet, so no credit cards. Some shops had no way of working payments without access to the internet. They were forced to close for the day. Those other shops that were still geared up to have cash transactions had a normal day, more or less.
A question I often ask people is "How long could you survive if the electricity stopped for six months?"
No phone, no internet, so no credit cards. Some shops had no way of working payments without access to the internet. They were forced to close for the day. Those other shops that were still geared up to have cash transactions had a normal day, more or less.
A question I often ask people is "How long could you survive if the electricity stopped for six months?"
Most of us would be lucky to last a week.