Massive BlackBerry Outages
RIM’s BlackBerry servers failed at 8 PM tonight, leading to data outages that have affected a large percentage of North American users. Cingular is reporting that BlackBerry devices are unable to send/receive messages, or access data services of any kind in all but 5 states. Other carriers are experiencing similar issues. RIM has no specific estimate as to when their servers will be back online, but have said that the issues are expected to continue "into the morning." There is further concern that when RIM does manage to get back online, that the rush of backlogged messages might overload their system, so they will be reinstating service in small increments.
UPDATE: Looks like RIM got everything back up smoothly. Atleast we didn’t have a Sidekick moment. You know, 3 weeks without data service?
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