[Outages] RIM Notifies of 'Critical' BlackBerry Outage

[Matt Baldwin]

Thanks.  We started seeing the issue about 2 - 2 1/2 hours ago.  Looks
like their support lines are down, too.  The message on the line is
saying their support phone system is having issues and is currently
down.  Fun times.

-matt

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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>  Via Reuters.
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>  [snip]
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>  E-mail service of Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones experienced a
>  "critical severity outage" on Monday, the company told clients in an
>  e-mail.
>
>  "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."
>
>  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.
>
>  Last April, a massive outage crashed BlackBerry service across North
>  America, leaving thousands of users without access to wireless e-mail.
>
>  [snip]
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>  More:
>  http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1114968920080211
>
>  - - ferg
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