Yet another BlackBerry outage?
We’re hearing a lot of reports that RIM’s BlackBerry network is down again. This isn’t confined to one carrier (we’re on AT&T and ours is a wrap). It looks as if Waterloo has acknowledged the issue, and classified it as a "critical severity outage". Not looking good. Let’s go, readers. Are you down for the count? If so, list your carrier!
UPDATE: Here is the officialness:
"Blackberry Outage
A component of the network infrastructure is experiencing a service interruption.
Service Affected: BlackBerry All service for some *The Americas Network (MULT) subscribers in the following locations: The Americas,
Summary: BlackBerry Network Infrastructure
Impact: BlackBerry subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages. Subscribers may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing.
BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site or perform activities such as creating new accounts, accessing their Internet mailbox, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments.
Devices may not receive new service books. BlackBerry Connect and BlackBerry-enabled devices that require a new PIN may be unable to receive the PIN.
BlackBerry Enterprise Servers may be unable to connect to the BlackBerry Infrastructure.
Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to use BlackBerry administration web sites or perform activities such as creating subscriber accounts or provisioning services for subscribers. [0491]
Ticket Number: BB90352
Incident Window Start Date and Time: 11 February 2008 15:20:00 (EST)
Downtime Duration: Ongoing
% of Subscribers Affected: 50.00 (estimated)
Cause: To Be Determined
EST = GMT – 5 hours
EDT = GMT – 4 hours
AEST = GMT + 10 hours"
I can confirm it’s RIM. I work for a Canadian carrier.
This problem started at 3:27PM EDT, we first started SPR drops, then all messages being held in queue.
Called RIM and they confirmed the outage in N. America. Our UK server is not effected by this.
No ETA.
Tmo in PA …DOWN DOWN DOWN
Sent some test messages to my blackberry e-mail addresses and no dice, grrrr.
T-Mobile USA
Down in Dallas – As always, management team is offsite! ARG!!
AT&T in Las Vegas. Down. Looks to be more than email, though. I am getting no data service outside MediaNet at all.
T-Mo in Chicago and yep…down for the count.
Confirmed affecting mine (VzW in Washington DC area) and at least two of my customers (ATT, VzW, TMobile in Los Angeles, NYC and Nashville). Bad RIM, bad!
Verizon here in Massachusetts – we are down as of the same time. Although some users were getting POP home mail at around 5:00PM EST
ATT in Pittsburgh, PA is down
A-OK, in STL
AT&T down in NYC.
Verizon, Arizona. RIP
I’m down as well here with T-Mo in Cincinnati.
NJ,
Sprint (CDMA)black berry back as of 5:40PM EST
Personally, Verizon Wireless is down. My execs carry TMobile, AT&T & Verizon… all down
DOWN in Fort Wayne, IN
VZW in chi-town….down
AT&T down in Sparks, Maryland
Nextel, Cali.
Verizon in Atlanta, GA – down
No love in Texas either. Sprint
att in new York city ! Down yet again… This is really getting annoying ! They need to update their servers for something!!
T-Mo out in Miami.
T-Mobile in NYC