Anyone else having an outage with their BlackBerries? On Sprint

[lokiju]

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?

 

[desy]

I don't know if we are on sprint but the time is about right for a major slowdown and outages for ours

 

[Jeeebus]

Now that you mention it, the last email showing up on my bberry is at 4:00pm EST.

 

[loup garou]

Nationwide outage
http://www.reuters.com/article.../idUSN1145997920080211

 

[iamwiz82]

I lost my AT&T BB at 3:30ish but it came back at 4:32pm.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I lost my AT&T BB at 3:30ish but it came back at 4:32pm.

Just checked our BES, last contact time still 3:18 here.

 

[bigrash]

IT at my work sent an email letting everyone know that Blackberry service is down. Not sure if they use Sprint though.

 

[djheater]

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

 

[DBL]

Last email 4:07 est.

Twice in one year. Bad.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

just got an email at mine at 4:25 CST

 

[dakels]

God I hate RIM. Mine has been down for at least 2 hours. Verizon

 

[MotionMan]

CNN: BlackBerry email service goes down

Back into the Stone Ages!!!

MotionMan

 

[Jeeebus]

service is back up

 

[lupi]

Wondered why I couldn't get google maps working earlier.

 

[Doggiedog]

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.

 

[Splork]

Yeah, AT&T was down earlier, but it was RIM's issue. It's been back up for hours.

 

[xeemzor]

Mwahahaha! Finally it's the Blackberries failing and not my windows mobile phone for once

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: xeemzor
Mwahahaha! Finally it's the Blackberries failing and not my windows mobile phone for once

you win this time Traebek.....


*counts to 60*

 

[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.

 

[AMCRambler]

The Blackberry networks couldn't handle the new fad sweeping the nation: Poop and go seek

 

[dakels]

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.

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.

 

[lupi]

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.