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BlackBerry Outages Across North America

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the iphones-are-just-slow dept.

TheHappyMailAdmin writes "BlackBerry service in North America is out: no email, no BB Messenger and no web browsing. Last carrier estimate I got was 24 hours until service will be restored, with others saying they've gotten estimates from support from between 3 hours to 2 days. BES and BIS services are impacted, and it's across all carriers. Bad timing for RIM as people are wrapping up their holiday shopping..." Updated 18:11 GMT by timothy: Reader notheusualsuspect pings with a note that the service has been restored.

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  1. Can you hear me now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bing.

  2. Thank you Karma by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    BB users are the biggest type-A douchebags around. They differ from their hipster iPhone douchebag brethren by typically wearing suits, talking loudly on their phones while waiting in line, and driving faux-retro American sedans. I knew when I woke up this morning that it would be a good day, as if millions of douchebags cried out and were suddenly silenced. Merry Christmas to all.

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    1. Re:Thank you Karma by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd like to see a medium-long facebook outage.
      Certain hardcore users would get physical withdraw symptoms, coma, then death.

    2. Re:Thank you Karma by gregarican · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually I mistyped this TLA (Three Letter Acronym). Should've been PETA. Most of the office staff would parade around wearing faux-fur coats and whine about the poor spotted owl and the mid-Atlantic one-eyed trouser trout...

    3. Re:Thank you Karma by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...unplug from the grid and take a chill pill.

      Timothy Leary once said something similar.

  3. A blackberry outage? Oh my! by ratnerstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap, no work emails on Christmas Eve? Whatever shall we do?

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  4. Re:Oh god no internet on my phone! by MooseMuffin · · Score: 4, Funny

    You posted from that thing? You're braver than I thought.

    Seriously though, you didn't actually come to slashdot and navigate through the comments on the default BB browser did you?

  5. Re:Works for me by ari_j · · Score: 3, Funny

    It appears that, as always, Slashdot has the breaking news within minutes after it becomes outdated.

  6. Re:Works for me by Bigbutt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually they get their new stories via their Blackberry's.

    [John]

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  7. Re:SMTP/POP/IMAP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least with Microsoft, you don't have a single point of failure !

    Yeah, there are probably dozens of points where the Microsoft stuff can fuck up and cause you grief! That's way better!

  8. Contact the engineer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope they have given the Engineers who will fix the fault something else other than a Blackberry phone ;)

  9. Re:failure modes .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shouldn't they built in some sort of redundancy and allow for failure modes

    Brilliant I say! Why I think you would be a hell of a CTO for our company. Such innovative ideas rolling around in that head of yours. I am summoning our current CTO and have him pack his things in short order. Welcome to Research in Motion!

    Sincerely,

    The Big Boss Man

  10. Re:Best. Gift. Evar. by andrewd18 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congratulations! Your most productive day in recent memory involves posting comments to Slashdot.

  11. Re:Central point of failure.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should have mentioned something else I found particularly funny. When our NOC found out about the BB outage last night, they sent an email to the BB users to inform them of this (which of course they weren't getting email).