BlackBerry Suffers Yet Another E-Mail Outage
Filed under: Cell Phones , BlackBerry , BlackBerry 101 Well, it looks like our friends at RIM are having a bit of trouble again, as its BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) suffered a second outage in as many months. BlackBerry owners across North America were swearing at their devices this morning as many e-mails were delayed or failed to send entirely thanks to the failure. RIM issued a statement that it had isolated the issue and its technicians were working diligently to restore service and, as of 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, users were reporting on Twitter that BIS was slowly coming back to life. Those affected were primarily individual customers and small businesses (enterprise users operate on a separate system), and BlackBerry acknowledged that the problem was with its service, and not the fault of carriers. Unfortunately the company failed to specify what exactly caused the problem. Continue reading BlackBerry Suffers Yet Another E-Mail Outage BlackBerry Suffers Yet Another E-Mail Outage originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
