According to reports from various sources, RIM is experiencing MAJOR outages on december 22. This is affecting Blackberry Messenger, email, web browsing to name a few.
So far no word from RIM on this issue. It all started with Blackberry Messenger service but later the outage expanded to email and web browsing.
“* Update 1: OK, preliminary word coming in is that it’s a partial outage affecting North American carriers: BlackBerry Messenger and things like the web browser and apps that use a data connection. Email seems ok though. And it seems not all carriers and not all subscribers are affected. I sure am though.. was in the middle of making a video on the new crackberry launcher when data quit. lol. *
*Update 2: BlackBerry data is no more. No emails, no web browsing, no BlackBerry messenger for it’s North American users. Estimated time for a fix to come through is 3 hrs to a day, yes..a day.
Lots of reports have been coming in over the past hour of BlackBerry Messenger service being on the fritz. You’ll sometimes get a check mark on a sent message, but not the D or the R signifying that the message has been delivered and read. Some users seem to be unaffected. For others, some of the messages are getting through and others are not (as shown above – Adam received two of the six messages I sent, yet I have yet to receive confirmation of him actually reading them). We’re starting to get reports from some people that it’s coming back up for them… let’s see how this goes. You can follow the forum threads below and use the comments to this post to stay on top of it!”
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