BlackBerry Outage Affecting All Carriers

For the second time this year as many as 50% of all BlackBerry users on all North American carriers are experiencing an outage. More specifically, they are experiencing a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) outage.

T-Mobile and AT&T have confirmed that their BlackBerry users are affected and, although we haven’t had a confirmation from the other carriers, dozens of BlackBerry users on Sprint, Verizon, and even Alltell are reporting that they aren’t getting their email.

It hasn’t been officially determined if the BlackBerry outage is on the side of the carriers or RIM. The fact, however, that all carriers seem to be affected would lead one to speculate that the issue is with RIM. This doesn’t bode well because when this happened, not even five months ago, RIM said that it wouldn’t happen again.

Written by Robb Dunewood on September 7th, 2007 with 14 comments.
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#1. September 7th, 2007, at 6:29 PM.

All my e-mail is working out just fine

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#2. September 7th, 2007, at 7:07 PM.

No e-mail since 6:00 A.M. here in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. Still getting SMS alerts.

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#3. September 7th, 2007, at 7:20 PM.

Entrepreneur and Investor Corner: I don’t know how much longer I can take this!

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#4. September 7th, 2007, at 7:32 PM.

I had BIS email outage as well (on Rogers Wireless). It is now 7:30pm here in Toronto and I just started getting a lot of my yahoo/gmail emails. This outage didn’t affect my BES emails.

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#5. September 7th, 2007, at 8:39 PM.

BB email has been slow. Just got a burst of afternoon mail at around 7:45 tonight. Luckly the iPhone is on order.

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#6. September 7th, 2007, at 8:40 PM.

This outage is outrageous

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#7. September 7th, 2007, at 8:48 PM.

getting emails in triplicate

getting emails in triplicate

getting emails in triplicate

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#8. September 7th, 2007, at 9:14 PM.

Kudos to “hellno” for some entertaining posts…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com JT
#9. September 7th, 2007, at 9:28 PM.

AT&T was out till 6:15pm on Friday. Weird thing was, I could send but not receive e-mails. Get your act together RIM, do what you need to do to grow your infrastructure to meet the demands of your new customers.

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#10. September 8th, 2007, at 1:34 AM.

i’ve been out over 24 hours. haven’t seen any other complaints from thursday night through, though.

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#11. September 8th, 2007, at 3:55 PM.

NerdwithSwag.com » Blog Archive » The Blackberry outage has effected us all…: been officially determined if the BlackBerry outage is the fault of the carriers or RIM. But as RIMarkable mentions ...

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#12. September 9th, 2007, at 8:02 AM.

I’m still getting weird system messages as of Saturday night and Sunday morning.

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#13. September 9th, 2007, at 8:29 PM.

On ATT wireless - been out (BIS) all weekend.
Sunday 8PM eastern…still out…grrrrr

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#14. September 10th, 2007, at 8:35 AM.

It Was Bad Weekend For RIM | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog: make a long story short, BlackBerry outages suck, and when you have your second major one in less than ...

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