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Major Blackberry outage at RIM

Posted in News by Dan at 3:37 pm

Starting at 11:30AM (EST) it was confirmed that Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile are all experiencing email and data failures on one out of five Blackberry handhelds on their network.

No ETA or timeline is projected for repair. Although this is a major inconvenience, this is nothing like the outages of 2005 and 2003.

Developing…

4 Comments, Comment or Trackback

  1. Odd …My BB seems fine. I’m on the Tmobile with a 7105

  2. Dan

    At UNEASYcentral I have a handful of BB’s and only two exhibit the problem.

  3. /cheer!

    //competitor

  4. Pat Moberly

    —–Original Message—–
    Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:15:17
    Subject: US Government Black Ops sabotages Black Berry.

    Guviment agencies confuse synonyms.

    Warshingtun, DC — The US Department of Black Operations accidentally executed an order to reboot their spy satellite communications server, nicknamed “Blackberry”, last night… and ooops! They executed the command on RIM’s commercial Blackberry server… causing major disruptions of email delivery….

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