Blackberry smart phones across the U.S. have been experiencing outage issues today. The technical problems have primarily affected e-mail, text, browser, and Blackberry Messenger (BBM). Some areas of the country seem to have some of these features working and others not.
My Blackberry has had functional text and e-mail. Blackberry Messenger is currently not working and neither are browser functions.
Research In Motion (RIM), manufacturer of the Blackberry and where all data passes through, is apparently working on fixing the issues today.
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Update 12/22/09 at 9:14 p.m. MST: The Blackberry outage continues nationwide. It seems from reading Twitter posts and searching news sites that the outage has affected the entire Blackberry network nationwide in America as well as Canada. Text messaging and phone calls are not affected. Browser use, apps, and Blackberry Messenger are not functioning. RIM is not responding to media inquiries as to the cause or how long they anticipate the outage issues will last.
Update 12/23/09 at 1:09 a.m.: My Blackberry is breathing again! Just started getting e-mails that were sent to me seven hours ago.
Update 12/23/09 at 2:45 a.m.: Blackberry became fully functional about an hour ago. Required a reboot to reattach to RIM server but all data services are restored and running normally.
