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"

132 Responses to “Yet another BlackBerry outage?”

  1. 76
    phoneking13 says:

    Nevermind. I’m back up. :) . Anyone else back on?

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  2. 77
    MaDMvD says:

    T-Mobile in Tampa, FL down as of 6:35 PM. Outage began at 3:25 PM eastern with SRP errors.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  3. 78
    SeattleBBUser says:

    AT&T Wireless in Seattle…still down.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  4. 79
    Sylvester says:

    Blackberry Services are backup in Plano, Texas.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  5. 80
    Evan says:

    Over here in Cali, United States with ATT (Cingular). Got NO BIS on my 8300.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  6. 81
    will says:

    just got my first BB yesterday. not off to a good start as i’ve had internet and BES issues since 230pm here in chi-town.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  7. 82
    BobL says:

    TMO in MA up.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  8. 83
    Miguel says:

    Service in Key West, Fl down. Our BES server last saw saw our handsets at 2:51

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  9. 84
    Jeremiah says:

    T-mobile—Ohio. One, two, three your out.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  10. 85
    MaDMvD says:

    T-Mobile back up in Tampa, FL.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  11. 86
    Hacksaw says:

    Sprint/Nextel Seattle, still down.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  12. 87
    bluehorseshoe says:

    VZW up in Texas. Yee ha! Hasn’t been down at all.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  13. 88
    Fred says:

    Verizon in Columbus, OH… DOWN :(

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  14. 89
    Ron C says:

    Back on in pittsburgh wooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  15. 90
    Anna says:

    no mail for sprint in Charleston, Wv

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  16. 91
    anne roberts says:

    tmobile and cingular down in los angeles

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  17. 92
    Doug says:

    I am down: T-Mobile in Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo Michigan. ;(

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  18. 93
    mjrkjm says:

    att is slow in the dc area, about 10 min delays id say

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  19. 94
    BrendaS says:

    This outage was a result of an upgrade RIM did on Saturday. The upgrade failed and RIM went to the back-up done before the upgrade. That’s why it’s now working again. Although there is a delay in messages for the next few hours.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  20. 95
    kreesedup says:

    Sprint Chi-city kewl here have been fine all day!!!

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  21. 96
    Miguel says:

    Back up now…

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  22. 97
    scott says:

    actually im back up here in DE now on VZW BIS.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  23. 98
    curlydog says:

    backup in Fla

    pop3 never went down just enterprise

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  24. 99
    Dan GiRoux says:

    I’m with Rogers and bell up in Canada and neither of my BB’s are working with email or pin messages… However my browsers are working fine… I’d like to say though that RIM fedebayly needs to work on things.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

  25. 100
    foobert says:

    ATT South FL, still no consistent msg delivery, though SRP tests OK and devices showed up on the air about 10 mins ago.

    Thumb up Thumb down 0

Leave a Reply