“A major service outage afflicted users of the popular BlackBerry smartphones across the United States and Canada on Monday, wireless carriers said,” The Associated Press reports.
“Officials with AT&T and Verizon Wireless said the BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion, told them customers of all wireless carriers were affected,” AP reports.
“There was no word what caused the outage or when service would be restored,” AP reports. “Officials of Research in Motion, also known as RIM, did not return phone calls.”
“Major disruptions have been rare but often provoke an angry backlash against the Canadian company because of its typically lengthy silences about the cause and because it eventually gives only cryptic, jargon-laden explanations,” AP reports.
“When the BlackBerry service suffered a major outage last April, the company remained silent about the cause for two days,” AP reports.
Full article here.
“Phone Activation Meltdown; Blackberry Users Uneffected.”
Except it was mostly media hype. Not one user I know was Affected and even the media recanted some of the hype as being due to AT&T;transferring accounts.
boy, you’re pretty quick to toot the technical horn. won’t be shocked if something like that happens to us. the worst thing about my iphone is the att service.
Nice job Rim.
I don’t know what caused it, but it’s just smells like it’s got Microsoft’s odor all over it.
It’s just an f-ing phone.
Get over yourselves, really.
I love my Macs. Love ’em. I just installed a 180MB patch to fix all the things Apple screwed up in 10.5. Apple makes great, yet imperfect stuff. RIM had a very brief service interruption. It happens. Technology is imperfect. It’s OK. RIM’s success is unquestionable everywhere but here. Amazing.
wow, whole lot of people we have never heard of before coming out of the wood work to tell us how great blackberrys are and how bad the iPhone is just as RIM has a crash. interesting astroturf campaign there guys…..
no offense, i think crackberry is a pretty cool system/phone, but someone must feel threatened to show up all defensive like that.
now if you tried arguing win-mobile worked, well, nobody is that stupid.
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Actually, shen, most of the posts have been all about how Blackberry is the crappiest phone since the crank models and how the iPhone is perfect. Even if the iPhone doesn’t work here at all and my Blackberry never lost service during the supposedly massive outage. We have a company full of them and they all worked fine, no service loss at all.
I’d love to have an iPhone for my personal cell phone. I can’t get one. My Blackberry works fine, always has.
iPhone users were unaffected because every day is “Outage Day” for iPhone users trying to access corporate email.
Would never happen with the rock-solid reliability and user friendliness of the Windows Mobile OS. It’s amazing how something so powerful can be so useful at the same time. You I-Phone dorks have no clue.
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It’s just another reason that using a Blackberry is fruitless.
Funny how there is a BB ad at the bottom of the MDN page that says “America’s most reliable wireless network.”
mw: “perhaps”
Proprietary solutions always fail in the end.
Jeez, MDN, big deal, outages happen. They are frustrating when they happen, but they happen. It’s only news worthy in the sense of our product being better than yours: When the outages/bugs/vulnerabilities are persistent and never addressed.
Just FYI, the iPhone has experienced at least 2 widespead outages since I have owned one (as apparently while AT&T;was updating either hardware or software). But they were silent about it also.
MDN has to manufacture interest in articles. I failed to notice where the iPhone was mentioned in the original article.
Funny, I’ve the Pearl, but I didn’t even notice any outage.
Maybe cuz nobody loves my enough to email me.
Boohoo, the loneliness.
“MDN has to manufacture interest in articles.”
It worked on you. Aren’t you ashamed?
Duh iPhone users were not affected, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT USE BLACKBERRY SERVICE.
It’s like saying the water is turned off but the gas is still flow, Outside of them being utilities that people user NOTHING is common!
Ampar, yes, I’m ashamed that I still expect MDN to have a least a shred of integrity.
Thank God I didn’t buy blackberry.
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