Another Blackberry outage

Reports of users being temporarily cut off from BlackBerry service have been popping up on the Web.

BlackBerry users who are also customers of Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon complained of slow e-mail or completely interrupted mobile data service. Corporate customers of Research In Motion did not seem to be affected.

Silicon Alley Insider got this statement from RIM: "Some customers using BlackBerry Internet Service experienced a delay this afternoon in sending or receiving e-mail. The issue has since been resolved and no messages were lost. RIM continues to investigate the matter. Service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers was not impacted. RIM apologizes to customers for any inconvenience."

Most RIM customers will remember the massive system outage in April that shut down their mobile e-mail service for several hours. The problem was blamed on a software upgrade, and CEO Jim Balsillie subsequently promised during an interview with eWeek that a similar glitch would never happen again.

Oops.

[bigboss5]

blackberry outage today

i can confirm that there was a blackberry outage today on the verizon network. very annoying.

[thomasvanderbilt]

Blackberry on AT&T in Atlanta is DOWN

I haven't received any emails on my bb since around 11 or noon <br />today and its still down!!!!!

[pfflynn]

Resolved? Not as of 6pm PDT

Still unable to send/receive email.

[jeremyblaze]

10:35 PM Central and no BB

Still down here in KC. If RIM said was fixed, they were lying.

[mas90guru]

Battery pull often required to get back to normal

I did not experience an outage because I only use the BES - Blackberry Enterprise Server.<br /><br />However in the past, when an outage has occurred, I've found it necessary to pull the BB battery for a couple seconds then reinsert it so the device can totally reset itself.

[shane--2008]

check the other stories

damn shame we all know the iPhone isn't ready for the <br />enterprise....<br /><br />between the RIM outages and the WGA outages, how can anyone <br />justify the "real enterprise" solutions out there and yet question <br />newer products?<br /><br />guess i will have to muddle through with with shiny "toy" Macs <br />and iPhone. which are all working just fine thanks....

[dreamdoc--2008]

Note to self:

Buy iPhone.

[justageek]

Is Blackberry ready for the Enterprise?

Seems like there is a story here similar to those being thrown <br />around about the iPhone. I think the real device that is ready for <br />the enterprise is one that supports many pop imap email servers <br />and is not limited to a legacy infrastructure.