"no downtime"? Surely, the writer was high.

Delays now 1 hour and growing. If this is attributed to RIM's network expansion, they need to find a better way to manage it.

More/long outages=lost customers

bb stuck on GSM (even with resets) in DC. AT&T. No emails

RIM redeems themselves if the "upgrade" is due to adding html email capabilities. Let's see that next OS.

My BIS is running fine in California, but my phone wakes at 7AM PST so might have just missed the party.

Sure they have downtime, they can't get email when their Treo's are rebooting for no reason all the time.

...the network is up but still slow... just an hour ago I wasn't getting anywhere...

back up in EDGE (not lower case) in DC at 2:30 EST

Interesting to note, during all this, RIM stock is up 4.39% for this day, at this point.

I am still getting it in spurts, not on a regular schedule.

it starting working again, after shutting off at 9am...now the emails are about 30 mins delayed...i'm sure it'll be fixed by tomorrow morning tho

Seems like the new agency's and Wall street don't see to care much about this outage. Is it because it's only BIS and not BES, or are BB outages becoming too common? I resent service book hours ago and still nothing. Some mail is coming through but hours late. AT&T NYC.

I am getting them sporadically here on Sprint in Oregon..
Most are delayed...

@ imcdona - Nope I'm on tmobile hehe (late response I know!)

I had the same problem, I was affected hardcore when I was trying to send service books to my phone. They now have updated 3x in the last hour =)

I called tmobile, and they knew of a problem on their side.. Not sure about other carriers. Just around the time I hung up with them was when I started getting all my service book updates (1pm mst)

It just shows us that we still need our trusty PCs hah! Phones aren't infallible.. yet :(

No problems at all here.

I wouldn't call two outages in 10 months common (I think it's up to 4-5 in 4 years). Perhaps it's just me. *shrug*

Agree with Jibi

Common was having to restart my WMD or treo 4-5 times a day

And it was never an actual outage... it was data maintenance that slowed down data over the networks. Personally i never lost BIS or BES access, but apps that required BIS internet were affected on my end. (ie Telenav)

i am getting loads of weird messages and expired certificate messages on my blackberry. gonna check out bes

I tried deleting and re-adding my Gmail acct to BIS and it didnt prompt me for any addtl settings...just said it was added.....there is no way to edit advanced properties within BIS?

Now that comment brought back some painful memories ...glad I smartened up and got a

what advanced properties are you trying to edit? once you put in your email + password thats all you need.

I am using IMAP and swore that I had to indicate SSL encryption and a couple of other things within BIS.

dont have to set anything up, BIS has all the settings it needs.

Thought I remembered telling it that i wanted to use IMAP and then supplied it with the appropriate servers....oh well....thanks.

BIS used to require server information, now, for the top 100 or so email providers (excluding hotmail) the information is stored.

6PM in Dallas and service is still screwy.

Yeah, still slow for me, too.

I am getting this too, but I am on BIS, is this because there is an outage? Who else is getting the Expired Certificate messages

I have to disagree. As a law enforcement system admin here in NYC, seeing blackberry go down now once a week is becoming common and dangerous. We use BB to advise personnel of incidents around the city. If our radio system went down once a week, heads would roll. I've been BB's biggest supporter around here and now everyone is shaking their heads at me. RIM's closed mouth about these failures is inexcusable. Most of us are on BES but outside agency's users are sent "jobs" via *.blackberry.net. Looks like we are going to re-evaluate the way we do things.

once a week for an outage? a) not even an outage today. b) its happened an average of 1 time per year over the last 5 years c) make sure in your assessment you do not fault RIM for carrier outages (which happen far more frequently).

good luck on switching to another service for instant email and security

Yes, let's blame America's network, AT&T, it's much funner! Been having issues since the outage report a little over a week ago, in getting BIS mail slow. I'm actually used to some delay when using Verizon's BIS services some time back, and was happily surprised when America's network (ATT) emails showed up instantly! Not the case, battery pulls and service book pushes up the a-hole, and nothing helps.

Should have listened to the weatherman last night... Thought I remember him predicting a RIM outage, but he lies every day, so why would I listen to him?

AT&T Seattle.

8:25PM EST here in NJ...i finally got BIS to reinstall my Yahoo email...all other worked fine through this issue...even BES was good...but its still working very slow with Yahoo...

hahaha....i cant tell you how many times i pushed the service books and got nothing...

Yikes! Not the sex lady again!!

Hahaha what has she done to the NOC!?!?

Sucks for RIM cuz Ms Sex talk always causes their issues and she always doesn't know what happened!? She's just here to inform us of her F - UP!

She's straight talk. RIM is hardly straight talk!

Just thought I would push this to the top...
Actually, I am still out in Oregon, sent service books, still not recieving emails, not sure what else to do besides call Sprint? I would rather solve my own issues before I have to do that, but I suppose they could tell me if its me or there is still nothing happening?

Laura

In Northern NJ w/Tmo I'm getting emails,etc. But I have that expired certificate issue. It keeps popping up on my screen. It doesn't seem to be impacting my ability to send/receive but every time something wants to pop up (like a calendar reminder) the certificate interferes and prevents the alert from sounding.

nevermind

According to this it was a pretty minor outage!

J