Canada’s Rogers Communications Restores Wireless, Internet Service

OTTAWA–Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. said it had restored internet and wireless services to the vast majority of the customers following a roughly day-long outage that hampered electronic-banking and debit-card transactions across the country.

Rogers said Saturday that technical teams were focused on ensuring all remaining customers were back online in an expedited fashion. Canada’s Interac system, a not-for-profit electronic network that operates a national debit network and handles on average 18 million transactions a day, said its services were now widely available. On Friday, it said debit-card transactions online and at checkout counters weren’t available, and certain electronic payments—such as transferring money from one bank account to another—also couldn’t be executed.