“Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research In Motion Ltd. struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network,” Georgina Prodhan reports for Reuters. “Users in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, Hong Kong and some parts of South America suffered patchy e-mail service and no access to browsing and messaging, ratcheting up negative sentiment towards a company already losing market share to Apple…”
“The outage spread to Canada in the early morning as e-mail, text services and Internet browsing stopped operating. At least one major wireless carrier appeared to restore service briefly, before the network failed again. Users in Ontario and Canada’s East Coast have taken to Twitter to report that the problems are ongoing,” Prodhan reports. “The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.”
Prodhan reports, “Many companies, no longer seeing the need to pay to be locked into RIM’s secure proprietary e-mail service, have already begun allowing employees to use alternative smart phones, particularly Apple’s iPhone, for corporate mail.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JoeW” for the heads up.]