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Anyone else having an outage with their BlackBerries? On Sprint

lokiju

lokiju

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All our Sprint berries haven't received anything since 3:30 EST and I can't find any official word that they're down.

Anyone else having issues?
 
I don't know if we are on sprint but the time is about right for a major slowdown and outages for ours
 
IT at my work sent an email letting everyone know that Blackberry service is down. Not sure if they use Sprint though.
 
Yep

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As of 3:38pm CT ? we received the first carrier acknowledgement of a RIM North America NOC outage:

This e-mail is to inform you of a network problem that MAY affect your Mobile Service.

Severity: 1-High

Description of Issue: Degradation of RIM Blackberry services Location of Issue: All Regions ;All Markets and surrounding areas

Start Time: Feb 11 2008 12:20 PM PST

Symptoms you MAY experience: RIM Blackberry users may be unable to send/receive messages or may have difficulty connecting to the network.

Estimated time of repair: Unknown

 
No but my Sprint phone dropped a lot of calls today while I was using it.

I just switched over after 7 years of Verizon too. So far, the phone service has not been as good as Verizon but you can't beat the SERO price.
 
Slightly off-topic:

What makes BB a better alternative than Palm or Windows Mobile for people?

(I'm a Palm user myself, and I like it's snappy interface and I also get push-email.
 
Originally posted by: state 08
Slightly off-topic:

What makes BB a better alternative than Palm or Windows Mobile for people?

(I'm a Palm user myself, and I like it's snappy interface and I also get push-email.
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They are fairly idiot proof, well minus the idiots at RIM apparently.

Honestly, I hate blackberry but I use an 8830 for work. This is all highly debatable and subject to personal opinion: The new series of blackberries are a lot better now but the bottom line is they have huge rock solid market share. They have made themselves the one and almost only enterprise email resource. There are lots of other products out there but I doubt you can find one with RIM's entrenchment into the community and service providers, provide the ease of use people who know very little about computers demand, and the incredible ability to crap on its customers without losing any. 😛

Honestly, from what others and I see, its the whole AOL effect. Be the first in the spotlight with it, keep it simple, automate everything, and keep marketing your product as the best (even if it's a lie). Lots of people will buy it with the wiser being only a small %. I take the train to World Trade/Financial Center (Wall Street area) every morning. Every shmoe in in a suit and tie has a blackberry. It's like some corporate requirement. I'm a drone too... But my heart lies with my old treo.
 
This morning I'm sooo glad I don't have a company BB. Apperantly with the outage when everything finally got pushed through a bunch of stuff ended up going company wide instead of to the originally prescribed list of recipients. The overnight IT crew must have finally cleaned most of it up but I still had about 50 "OMG stop replying to all" emails in my box.
 
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