Update

Telstra spokesman rod Bruem said that a new physical link for service between Telstra and Research in Motion has been established and work on the configuration of the data carriage over that link is underway.

There is a possibility that full service will be restored this afternoon, but due to international time frames and the degree of the co-ordination required, we have been conservative in our restoration estimates.  We also anticipate that there is a backlog of emails which may take sometime to clear, but (we are) still targeting full service restoration by start of business Friday.

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Around 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning a massive BlackBerry outage hit users of Telstra’s wireless network due to failed primary and backup links between Telstra and Research in Motion on the North American side.  After more than 24 hours, Telstra still doesn’t know when service will be restored.

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