Blackberry email goes down…again

This is getting a little bit ridiculous, folks. We here at BGR have trouble putting our Blackberries down. Seriously. It’s a problem. That said, we’re getting a little bit frustrated with RIM following the 3rd service interruption in 9 months, and the second in a week. It’s poor form. Following the notorious blackout last year, RIM promised that it would never happen again. Hollow promises, as around 80% of all Berry devices in the continental US have been affected by a service outage that began around 3 am this morning. No carrier has been spared, with reports of crippled devices from Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Nextel, and Sprint. It seems that some users are finally getting back up online, but there’s been no official word from RIM regarding a projected time of resolution. Forgive us, but we’re beginning to question the reliability of our beloved BlackBerries. So sad, they’ve turned into Sidekicks.

 

70 Responses to “Blackberry email goes down…again”

  1. 26
    SA says:

    Sprint in Phoenix is down, down, down.

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    KG says:

    I get nothing here in Central NJ on ATT. Not even phone calls. I am now going to call it the black-out-berry.

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    Kevin says:

    ATT Chicago, not down, just delayed like 5 minutes an email. Could be worse.

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    Rod says:

    my blackberry is down
    :[

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    sheung says:

    No problems here in northwest Indiana, I’ve been receiving e-mails since 6 AM

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    Steven says:

    Many problems here in West Bloomfield, Michigan! E-mails are very spotty and on my Verizon BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, e-mails are disappearing from my G-mail inbox. Is that normal???!!???

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    StuBee says:

    There is a difference between BES and BIS. The outtage is for BIS. ie…those without a company Blackberry Server.

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    Mitchell says:

    So, here’s my question: Let’s say that hypothetically I wanted to dump my crackberry in favor of a WinMo device. What services on WinMo will most closely replicate what I have now (BIS with 3 email accounts). I have no desire to have an “always on” computer, and do not use Outlook for mail. Everything is stored on the web servers.

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    Galvatron says:

    works just fine here in the pheonix area

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    Jvijil says:

    ok i love my curve but this is seriosly getting annoying. its down in miami Fl with att. im not going to change my phone but if bb doesn’t fix this i am definently looking elsewhere come upgrade time.

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    Cliff says:

    Verizon in Central NY – service issues.
    Email – send seems fine, receive not happening at all for a few hours. Things are building up in gmail’s inbox but not pushing to the device.

    Web – works but slow (sometimes displays 1x instead of EV. The whole city is EV, and I haven’t left home yet today so it’s not like I’m going out of coverage area).

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    jeremiah says:

    Off and on here. 2-3 hour delays sometimes. T-mobile, ohio

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    Ken says:

    T-Mo in SoCal… no outage.

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    NuShrike says:

    Now imagine if “terrorists” targeted Blackberry…

    It’s silly to have so much important information infrastructure isolated into this single point of failure.

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    Rosario says:

    Why all the sidekick hate? We lose signal once in awhile but that’s about it.

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    JJLO says:

    I never noticed the outage at all on my Sprint BB

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    WifiGuy says:

    I am reading alot of responses centering around gmail, which I am assuming that consumer folks are hooked on BB also. Can someone share with me why a regular consumer would want push email. What’s the killer app? Isn’t text messaging enough?

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    PDAJ says:

    Down in FL for TMO as well

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    Tristan says:

    T-Mobile in the Philly area here. Haven’t experienced any problems with any of the previous two outtages. I got emails overnight and this morning too with no problems.

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    JayTV says:

    Funny how my Exchange hosted server never has an outage in the two years I’ve been using hosted Exchange…

    +1 Windows Mobile

    RIM, watch out, I have clients who are reconsidering BB service now…

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    Robert says:

    I have my company e-mail on BIS, not BES. Same with my yahoo. My Company e-mail and gmail work fine, my yahoo has a huge lag. Basically service is normal, and has always been normal in the Seattle Area.

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    Robert says:

    I also suggest you guys doing a cold reboot. When you do this you reset your blackberry.

    Cold Reboot: (power off, take battery out, wait 30 seconds, then put battery back in and power on).

    Usually your service will be back to normal.

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    topher b says:

    No issue in denver on T-Mobile.

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    imageone says:

    ………….. iPhone bitch!

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    BB User says:

    This is only for BIS, BES should be working fine

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