"This is an emergency notification regarding the current BlackBerry Infrastructure outage," RIM support account manager Bryan Simpson said in an e-mail. The message said the outage affected enterprise clients and "users of the Americas network."Rut-roh, Shaggy!RIM was not immediately available for comment and its e-mail gave no estimate on when service may be restored or how many individuals could be affected.
UPDATE 1-RIM notifies of "critical" BlackBerry outage [Reuters] (Thanks, Mexifinn!)
]]>Damn shame my BlackBerry isn't affected by this. I still woke up to a dozen e-mails.
Would the Type A's that feel compelled to e-mail me at three in the morning kindly STFU.
]]>@gibwar: I've got a UTStarcomm 6700 Windows Mobile PocketPC phone for sale if you want it. Can't stand Windows Mobile. Replaced it with a BB 7250. Admittedly quite a step back in terms of capabilities, *BUT* it flat out works and everything it does, it does well. Contrast this to the Windows Mobile device which crashed frequently, was terribly cumbersome to use, short battery life, and the interface absolutely sucks.
Am I happy about the proprietary-ness of the Blackberry? No, but I'll gladly go for a device which WORKS (BB) over one which doesn't (Windows Mobile).
]]>@howie_in_az, @m4ximusprim3: lol, I'm not saying it's stable, but I feel better when the point of failure is in our area rather than outside.
The main reason I was mentioning Exchange is the fact that it cuts out the middle man, in this case RIM. With Exchange, the access is direct, unlike RIM where you install some connector to upload your email to RIM servers for your blackberry to download.
]]>Problem seems to be solved now. At least the BES(Blackberry Enterprise Server) that I manage has had it's mail queues just empty out over the last 5 minutes or so.
]]>@howie_in_az: shhh. stop pointing out that the green grass is only painted! You're just making his crackberry addled existence even bleaker.
]]>This is why I hate having a BlackBerry... there's a single point of failure that is out of our control. We use Microsoft Exchange at work, so there'd be no issue switching to Windows Mobile for us. Oh how I'd love to use a WM device at work...
Did I mention that I hate having a BlackBerry?
]]>This was odd even for the BFE of Sioux Falls. We actually have decent tower coverage. So I am guessing it was something more upstream.
]]>Mine is running again, but was down most of the afternoon. It may just be a hiccup though and service may still be screwed...
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]]>all backberry service is down
Updated from my company. "This should have been communicated as a Nationwide RIM (BB) outage. It is not an AT & T service outage.
]]>My company notified its BB users that there is a national service outage for AT & T BB users. Estimated fix may take 24 -- 48 hours per AT & T.
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