RIM’s worldwide service outage cluster-diddle spread to the U.S. and Canada today, meaning BlackBerry’s email and messaging has been knocked offline on every continent but (maybe) Australia and Antartica.
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-service-is-dead-around-the-world-again-up-5848622
Email and messaging on BlackBerries go through RIM, so when their BBM core switch and its backup both failed, everything got utterly borked in a hurry. They’re working to bring everything back up, and Canada’s Pac Bell expected everything to be online this morning, but we’re now into the third day of the BlackBerry outage.
https://gizmodo.com/rim-our-bbm-core-switch-failed-then-our-back-up-faile-5848962
What about you, dear (BlackBerry-toting) readers: Has your service been thrashed by these outages? [AP]
