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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>From Sunday night until late Monday morning, it was not possible to carry out any transactions on \u2018SIMO Rede\u2019 electronic terminals, to the detriment of both citizens and economic agents.<\/p>\n

ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) equipment and similar operations in the Ponto24 mobile network did not respond to commands from the customers of the banks connected to the SIMO network\u2019s computer system from Sunday night until around 12 noon on Monday.<\/p>\n

D\u00e9rcio Guilherme was among those affected. He tried to shop at a supermarket and fill up his car in Maputo, but without success \u2013 payment terminals refused to cooperate. \u201cI wanted to go shopping but everything was at a standstill \u2013 the mobile wallet and cards were not working. Because of that, we couldn\u2019t do anything. I tried to fill up the car in the morning, but I couldn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Student Abdallah Assane was collating documentation for a scholarship, but almost saw his dream postponed because the last day to pay some of his trip expenses coincided with the outage. \u201cI was unable to make payments for the recognition of some scholarship documents,\u201d he relates. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I lost [my application].\u201d<\/p>\n

Many commercial establishments were impacted by the hours-long hiatus \u2013 most of the stores in Maputo City have POS equipment as one of the main means of payment. \u201cWe saw many customers having to come back, because lately they have been paying by card,\u201d said F\u00e1tima Mussagy, a store agent.<\/p>\n

\u2018O Pa\u00eds\u2019 tried to contact the entity responsible for managing the SIMO network yesterday for answers about the causes of the blackout, but without success.<\/p>\n

The last major blackout of the banking transaction network was recorded in 2019.<\/p>\n

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