Widespread BlackBerry outage?
And we thought these things were a thing of the past….it seems that BlackBerry users on all networks are experiencing a complete data outage. First reported around 10:00 AM this morning EDT, the outage is apparently blocking all email and web access to ‘Berrys on all mobile networks. T-Mobile has, in fact, just confirmed the existence of a global BlackBerry BIS network outage, with no expected time frame for resolution. Thus far, we’ve only received reports from AT&T and T-Mobile users, but we have every reason to believe that Sprint and Verizon users are thusly effected as well. If the outage is as widespread as the initial reports seem to indicate, this could mark the second time in a year that the BlackBerry users have been subjected to such an event. It should be noted that it has not yet been confirmed if the problem is on the carrier side or RIM side of things, but given the cross-carrier nature of the problem, we’d wager a guess that it’s a RIM problem. Come on, RIM!
Thanks, to everyone that sent this in!
On Sep 8, 2007 @ 8:03 am, Buckeye Fan Said:
AT&T in Columbus, OH is doing just fine!
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 8:42 am, jawsnj Said:
Just woke up Sat morning and got a rush of 40 or so emails the were not delivered to my bb 8703E on VZW…
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 8:50 am, SammyQ Said:
Alright, here in Austin, TX on T-Mobile with BIS and ran a few test emails and it appears the problem has now been solved.
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 9:34 am, Darren Said:
No issues in Cincinnati on T-Mobile using BES.
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 3:18 pm, Kare Said:
Hey guys, Verizon is working amazingly. And has been, all day long.
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 10:44 pm, jeff block ....yahoo Said:
yes huge problem the last 30 hours…… it better get fixed as i rely on my device for work. i recieved emails today that were dated yesterday morning.
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On Sep 8, 2007 @ 11:35 pm, Kim Said:
I’m in Southern California and have been out since yesterday morning. Verizon says they have no ETA on repair. Getting SOME messages hours to a day later.
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On Sep 9, 2007 @ 8:06 pm, Troy Said:
yea i had 2 go through it but they gave me 100 minutes and they fixed it so im good
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On Sep 9, 2007 @ 8:40 pm, Richard Savel Said:
Sunday, Sept 9, 2007, 838pm, nyc
verizon blackberry 8703e
i have yahoo email BIS and it is not working at all. BES working fine. But i need my yahoo email.
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On Sep 9, 2007 @ 9:45 pm, Richard Savel Said:
I finally gave up and used the yahooPlus email forwarding option to forward my email directly to blackberry while all of these problems are worked out. This seems to be an iron-clad solution for now.
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On Sep 10, 2007 @ 11:25 am, Chris Henley Said:
another day and no service or even promise of service. I’m going to use this to get out of my contract
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On Sep 10, 2007 @ 2:23 pm, Richard Savel Said:
Well, I got a couple of emails today, but the problem seems to be far from over.
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On Sep 10, 2007 @ 2:40 pm, test5477 Said:
yeah, its still ongoing. especially if you need your yahoo account.
I have been on and off for a couple days now, very annoying.
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On Sep 10, 2007 @ 7:18 pm, Richard Savel Said:
7:17pm, nyc, still not working well in any way. yahoo email still not syncing the way it should with blackberry. This is now Monday. This started on Friday!!!! Is this problem going to be over soon? Does anyone have ideas? Please post comments please help.
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On Sep 10, 2007 @ 9:28 pm, Laura Said:
6:25pm 9/10/07 - AT&T, Calif. still not working - yahoo email still not syncing the way it should with blackberry. today I signed up for a gmail account and switched all my yahoo mail to gmail - getting those emails fine. Seems to only be a problem with blackberry/yahoo.
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On Sep 11, 2007 @ 7:46 am, Richard Savel Said:
Well as of 745am NYC, the yahoo email seems to be syncing again, but I am very unhappy, and rather pissed off. The entire thing is very unprofessional. I pay for yahoo email plus and pay for blackberry service. This kind of thing really isn’t very good.
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On Sep 12, 2007 @ 8:05 pm, Richard Savel Said:
it seems as if everything is finally back to normal. I love BlackBerry’s product, and I am extremely happy to have it working again.
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On Sep 18, 2007 @ 11:32 am, Becky Nelson Said:
My Blackberry is down..spoke with Nextel about the outage and no avail..anyways, just wondering if anyone else is down??
Becky
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On Oct 20, 2007 @ 11:50 am, Richard Savel Said:
well, it’s october 20, and it looks like the yahoo email blackberry interface is down again.
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On Feb 12, 2008 @ 7:52 am, mike miller Said:
oh it’s just that blackberry is canadian and not really aware of the Fascist takeover of the United States - the problem is PIN to PIN messaging that cannot be accessed by U.S. intelligence agencies. So RIM gets slapped on the hand, shut down, until they figure out how to allow access to monitor PIN to PIN communications. If that doesn’t happen, then they will have to drop the PIN to PIN communications. NO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CAN BE PRIVATE!
in actual fact, no communication can be private…except perhaps a whisper.
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