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BlackBerry BIS outage again?

Posted by Joshua Karp on Sep 25, 2007 5:54 pm 50 comments
Filed in AT&T, BlackBerry, News, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

What’s that sound? Right, it’s hundreds of thousands of BlackBerry users left without immediate access to their Gmail, Yahoo!, and other BIS accounts. The current outage, which has been confirmed by RIM, is affecting all BIS users, regardless of carrier. It is not affect blackberry.net addresses. There is no estimated time of the fix, and no specifics have been been given. Other services possibly effected are web browsing and any 3rd party applications that require access to the handheld’s data connection. Forgive us for this one, but RIM: COME ON! This is the third major outage in 5 months, an outage Berry users are becoming all too accustomed to. We’ll save the rant for another day, but BlackBerry has long been heralded as a bastion of reliability and stable service. At the very least we would appreciate some sort of statement from RIM.Start venting……now.

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  1. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 5:59 pm, chuck Said:

    I’m receiving my gmail messages on my blackberry as I type. I haven’t had any problems all day. T-Mobile user in Chicagoland.

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  2. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:00 pm, pd Said:

    No outage here, on Verizon. Have email and web (posting from my BB). However, if there is another outage at anytime in the near future, I will be highly annoyed.

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  3. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:03 pm, andrew Said:

    Yea, I’m on Verizon and I just got an email as I was reading the post.

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  4. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:05 pm, zac Said:

    I only experienced that first outage months ago, Verizon Wireless in North Carolina, I havnt experienced any outage all day? Maybe verizon really does have the best network!

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  5. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:06 pm, John Said:

    I’m Verizon in Los Angeles. Not nearly as bad as past outages, as I’m still getting email periodically, but service has definitely been delayed much of the day.

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  6. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:13 pm, b.N Said:

    Tmo BIS user in NYC/NJ experiencing no prob and my friend ATT BIS is up too. The one a month back affected me though.

    What’s going on with RIM as of late? =0/

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  7. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:19 pm, PC Said:

    Very slow delivery of .blackberry.net BIS messages all day - like almost 1 hour (Rogers)

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  8. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:20 pm, Jason Said:

    No problems here. Northern California with AT&T.

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  9. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:22 pm, PS Said:

    This is another reason why I switched to wireless activesync and will never look back.

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  10. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:29 pm, Jay Diezel Said:

    T-mobile BIS user here i have been able to access email and internet all day with no problems as of yet

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  11. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:35 pm, veks Said:

    I been getting my mail through out the day. I use gmail an I’m on sprint in LA, CA

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  12. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:36 pm, chris Said:

    Yeah I hate when this happens. I got the outage earlier today. Luckily its working now.

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  13. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:41 pm, matt Said:

    Was. Affected by the last one. Just starting to receive email that I sent at 4:41. So 2 for 3 now. Att on east coast - dc here. So annoying! And no warning.

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  14. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:48 pm, victor Said:

    No probs on ATT Boston, maybe later but by then I hope I get home to check emails and such.

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  15. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:52 pm, Rick Lukowicz Said:

    It was out in Denver this morning. I could not send or receive blackberry messages, nor I could access my gmail account, and I also could not access the web via my blackberry browser. Grr… This is getting old. If it happens a few times too many again, I’m switching to Treo.

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  16. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:53 pm, connie Said:

    no outage in san diego!!!!!!! its my birthday today ! woooo.

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  17. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 6:59 pm, JJLO Said:

    I am on the verge of getting my first smartphone….BB Curve. I certainly hope this does not become the norm for reliability. Lets hope this gets fixed correctly this time around.

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  18. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:10 pm, Galvatron Said:

    they need to up the server ifastructure

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  19. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:19 pm, John Said:

    I just switched back to the Pearl on AT&T, and delivery to my .blackberry.net address has been painfully slow in DC!!

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  20. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:21 pm, Marcus Said:

    I haven’t noticed any problems today. I have been sending and receiving emails all day. T-Mo in Michigan.

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  21. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:33 pm, iPhonewho? Said:

    Unlike the other two outages, I’ve been getting gmail emails all day on Verizon (sometimes in batches of 2-3 emails a few minutes late, but nothing that would have prompted me to believe there was a network problem).

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  22. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:36 pm, RR Said:

    in LA email is working but messenger is not working

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  23. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:43 pm, ik Said:

    Yahoo is being pulled not pushed. Been off & on for the last couple of weeks. LA, CA

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  24. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:44 pm, Stephen Said:

    Works fine for me…

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  25. On Sep 25, 2007 @ 7:44 pm, LK Said:

    My mobile email works flawlessly all the time. Of course, I do not have a BlackBerry. :P

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