Your email is not being pushed through to your device as of about 8pm tonight. Might want to make some other plans. No word on when the outage will end. —MEGHANN MARCO
UPDATE: According to WNBC the outage is sort of over.
Officials with RIM said they tried to reset the system and they were concerned that the backlog of data, which could cause a bigger problem as it rushes through now that the system appears to be online.RIM officials said messages would be sent out in stages so the system does not crash.
RIM officials recommend all who depend on their BlackBerry as a major way of communication should make some back-up plans in case more problems occur Wednesday morning.
Massive Blackberry Outage [WNBC]
]]>Anyway, turning it off is good for the environment - you don't have to charge it as often.
It's not that hard folks...
]]>Oh, and regarding the outage... Having been in IT for over a dozen years, I can guarantee that whatever it is that caused a 12+ hour outage will NEVER occur again as they will do everything in their power to prevent it. Of course, if you make something foolproof, the world will make a bigger fool so their fixing this problem doesn't necessarily prevent any future issues.
]]>...hopefully, he'll be out of contact all morning!
]]>Ok. Thanks. Kisses!
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RIM- 1,000,000
M$ - 1
If only those messages worked so well on our side (DSL). We can have an ambush up informing people that DNS is out and no one can surf, yet hundreds of calls of "Does that affect me?" still come through.
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Aw crap. Mine's working.
]]>Obviously, it's not all roses in the land of "we just switched 10,000 employees from Palm devices to Blackberry".
]]>wacky huh
]]>I think I'm the only person to be relieved and happy it's a nationwide RIM issue!
]]>For a little while at least...
]]>You can plan for the absolute worse, and still something will happen to take out the one thing you didnt think of. Worse it could not even be your fault. Once we had half our network go down, everyone called and blamed us despite us not being able to track down one problem anywhere on the network that could have caused it.
What did? Verizon who had a line go down and never told us.
Shit like this happens far more than you would ever be aware.
"Blackberry/RIM is experiencing a total service wide outage at this time. The problem lies with RIM networks and they are working hard to resolve the problem. This is affecting ALL blackberry/rim device users nationwide. RIM cannot give us an estimated time of resolution at the moment but they will notify all parties when service has been restored."
This? Is bad. Not so much because Blackberries aren't working (realistically, most of us will live), but because this is the sort of thing that should not happen under any circumstances. RIM should have redundancies for their redudancies for their redundancies. I can't even begin to imagine how a systemwide crash like this happens.
]]>The world just stopped spinning.
Oh, wait. No, it didn't.
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