Gillies reports, “Research In Motion Ltd. said technicians were working on the problem… RIM didn’t immediately say how many users were affected.”
“In February 2008, an upgrade to the wireless system apparently caused a three-hour service disruption,” Gillies reports. “In April 2008, a minor software upgrade crashed the system. A smaller disruption in September 2008 also was caused by a software glitch.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “sparkplug” and “Zach M.” for the heads up.]
I bet that has a lot of T-Mobile Sidekick and Palm Pre users gloating. Oh, wait…
Yeah, but MobileMe’s webmail page is still the worst out there…What’s with all these phantom drafts? Or the hurs-long delay for confirmation of sent emails??
Three outages in less than a year. Not sure I’d want to pay extra for that.
I have both BBerry and iPhone.
None of the BBerry outages have ever affected me. I’m still receiving e-mail via BBerry as we speak.
However I can seldom access 3G and, unless I’m on WiFi, i might as well be in the dial-up 1980’s
@Jon1
So you live in the butt hole of America. Is your iPhone for sale?
@OM
I have MM and I’d hardly consider it the worst out there. You think it worse than Hotmail, MSN, and Yahoo? MM has room for improvement and much of what ails MM will be cleared up as soon as Apple dumps Akamai and Limelight Networks.
@Jon1 et al:
Anecdotal evidence, isn’t. If you get what I mean. If in Butthole, AL, huge numbers of iPhone users are experiencing the exact same problem as you, then there might be an issue. But there isn’t. Is there..
Meanwhile – anecdotally – here in New York City, my iPhone 3Gs is downright fabulous 95% of the time, with really fast connections. Hell, even on the subway at Atlantic Avenue I’ve had calls/texts.
So if I was you Jon, I’d move.
I’d move, but I make too much money where I am.
Love my iPhone
BBerry is for work – adequate in most ways.
According to RIM the problem has been solved and service is restored. SO this outage lasted a few hours and was fixed promptly? Is MobileMe still down?
Sorry guys, I’m with Jon1. I’m getting a blackberry because it’s cheaper for better coverage and better hardware. Plus I don’t want to be trapped in with iTune$. iPhone users are just butthurt!
@Sorry:
Why are you trapped in with iTunes? Are you talking about apps or music, movies, etc.? And what’s so wrong with iTunes?
Some areas of the country have better coverage from one carrier than another. Fact of life. My wife had a great ExpressCard mobile connect for her MacBook Pro via Alltell, and then they sold out to Verizon. It was the only signal she could get at her office at work; neither ATT nor Verizon gets a signal there. My relatives in central Wisconsin use US Cellular because it’s the best coverage for their area; ATT and Verizon are spotty. Such is life.
Once Verizon switches to a non-CDMA network, we’ll see the iPhone on Verizon, which will be a good thing. But not before then.
EASY there MDN. Perhaps a headline could read:
Apple iPhone all on AT&T;network. All iPhone users affected.
I’m thinking that this thread is getting spammed. If MDN would check the IP’s of the recent “butthole” residents, he would find that they are three posts from the same IP.
@Sorry,
I think you misunderstood me.
I carry both and that is not going to change.
I like them both for different reasons.
BBerry doesn’t run any of the apps I use iPhone for.
Sucks for web use.
It won’t even tell me when I have a VM – DUMB
But – Work requires it and it works.
iPhone is my preference and I will continue to use it because I love it.
Looks like RIMM just blew out earnings expectaions to the upside.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/RIM-posts-big-gains-in-profit-rb-245328418.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset;=&ccode;=
Re: New York City iPhone data availability
Are you guys nuts?!
I love my iPhone, and so do the large number of other New Yorkers I know that have one, but the data connections here are often terrible! I sure hope AT&T;can improve their carrying capacity to meet the theoretical speed of their 3G network (theoretically much better than Verizon).
Now, just for all you Verizon-hopefuls: if the iPhone comes to Verizon anytime soon, I’ll be looking forward to all the wishful-thinkers jumping over there, killing Verizon’s network and freeing up space for me on AT&T;. Don’t think that Verizon would hold up if all of a sudden they had a smartphone that people actually USE.
Oh, for all you newbies to MDN, the weird trailing semi-colon after the name AT&T;is added by MDN’s broken comment software, not by us commenters.
Great! I forget that the broken comment software also strips out the space following AT&T;, so the semi-colon gets jammed against the following word.
MDN: you guys ever going to fix this? It shouldn’t be that hard. I guess you could stop covering AT&T;-related stories… *grin*.
Not an issue here in Malaysia. Blackberries are not really that popular, and are not lusted after, compared to the iPhone.
Heck, people are begging Apple to open up to other service providers besides Maxis (which offers insanely high call-rates).
http://no-spamming/
Come to Australia – you can get the iPhone on every carrier (I think)… Telstra, Vodafone, Optus, Virgin Mobile and 3.
Although we missed out completely on the first model iPhone, the wait was certainly worth it.
Competition is good ^_^
Whatever… non-news. A few email delays for a few hours for a few users. Next, please.
People with Fido iPhones in BC and Alberta were unable to connect to the internet using their G3 network on December 17 for at least six hours. Fido did not make any attempt to notify customers of this system crash, it was only after contacting them for clarification was I informed of the magnitude of the outage. Phone contact remained intact but date transmission was unavailable. In fact, it remains spotty the following morning. WiFi date transfer was of course unaffected.