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BlackBerry Service Suffers Brief Widescale Outage

by Will Safer on February 11, 2008 at 06:42 PM

Blackberry Outage According to reports, Research In Motion's Blackberry devices suffered a wide-scale outage that began this afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, according to reports from carrier AT&T. The outage affected all carriers and not just AT&T.

The problem has reportedly been fixed, although Verizon indicates it may take some time for it to catch up with delivery of backlogged email to its subscribers.

The last time Blackberry service went out was this past September. After an earlier outage in April 2007, RIM CEO Jim Balsille said, "It shouldn't have happened, and it won't happen again."

So much for promises.

We think it is interesting that Blackberry notified its customers via e-mail.

From AOL Money & Finance.

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