Just received two messages @ 10:37 and right after sent two test and received red X's again.

Cingular - Nextel - 120 users BES New York City

On to page 2 with the ultimate "me, too" thread!

no email or internet access for me. i cant register after wiping my handheld.

all i get is edge and phone service.

on cingular here in nj.

Me, too!

How can a few "me too" posts bother you? Compared to what happened at VT, it's nothing!

Dude, grow up.

I don't know if you were personally affected by yesterday's events...if so, please accept my deepest sympathies. Perhaps you should step away from the boards for a while then?

If not, either lock the thread if it is against the forum rules or simply stop reading/posting in it.

Summary: BlackBerry Infrastructure Outage

Impact: The following services will be restored once the incident has cleared: BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers will be unable to receive messages and will receive an "x" when sending messages. Subscribers will not be able to access Subscriber Website, self-provision, create new accounts, or integrate new ISP accounts. BlackBerry Internet Service resellers will not be able to access Admin Website to activate subscribers. Provisioning resellers will not be able to access the provisioning site for service activations/deactivations. Carriers will not be able to provision (activate, deactivate, suspend or resume) Relay-access services either through the web user interface or the XML interface. BlackBerry Enterprise Clients will lose their connection and not be able to reconnect and new users will not be able to register their devices. BlackBerry Internet Edition, paging subscribers, PIN to PIN and Desktop Redirector users, will not be able to send or receive messages.
Subscribers will be unable to use Relay Roaming. [0491]

Ticket Number: BB77003

Incident Window Start Date and Time: 17 April 2007 20:11:20 (EDT) Downtime Duration: Ongoing % of Subscribers Affected: 100.00 (estimated)



we are told to do no data ts at this time have never to my knowledge in past year had an outage like this at nextel

I find it amusing that there is a reported NATIONAL OUTAGE and everyone wants to say "I Called My Carrier And They Said There Is An Outage With No ETA".

In other words, me, too.

My reference to VT was towards an outraged poster complaining about BB stability.

In any event, please keep posting. I am running a pool for the total number of posts in the "BlackBerry is down" thread collection.

Good reading.

Has there been a recent update?

My company was told it would be fixed at 8pm MST. This is clearly not the case. I have been on hold for 30+ min.

We do get sporadic emails, they come through about 1 every few hours.

Still not up for me,

Verizon in Northern VA.

Cant seem to do anything but phone and sms.

-A

For those that missed it on page 1:

If you're interested in tracking this with a few of us in realtime, we're currently chatting about this on IRC.

Join #blackberry on the EFNET irc network. we can talk about this in realtime.

Download the mirc client from mIRC - An Internet Relay Chat program and connect to "irc.efnet.org", and then /join #blackberry_outage.

-Lokatana

I work in the Media and have been trying to get a statement from the PR firm that works with them - they are no where to be found... THe PR flack gave her email address - but i am sure her blackberry is down as well

If anyone has any way of getting in touch with them post them here...
thanks

Bleh woke up friends in NY and Minnesota trying to figure out if it was just my BES servers or if it affected everyone... Was looking for a thread on this but didnt find it (3 Hours ago)...

Should have know you guys would have said something...

Didn't there used to be a network status map on RIM or Blackberry's site???

Listen to you guys. Your lives are being run by a small Canadian box. I love to see grown men cry over email.

Proud Canadian

Interestingly enough, this thread had switched gears from a blackberry outage to a conversation about the bitter moderator from NJ. So, now, instead of the repetitive comments about the outage, we can post repetitive comments about what an a-hole he is.

Obviously nobody is interested in your antagonistic commentary. To that, I say, "me too."

NJ has a point, though. RIM has classified this as a COMPLETE outage with 100% of its users affected. When services start coming back online, or whenever RIM sends out notifications of resolution, then it may be a good time to start back with people replying to this thread (and others like it).

Simply put, EVERYONE with a BlackBerry is down for their RIM-provided services.

yea NBC news just reported a total infrastructure failure and are trying to reset there whole system.

Me too, i guess... lol

NYC here nothing, nada, zilch....

lucky for me, i'm not getting bombarded with IT questions, so i'm SO happy...

First post and you wasted it on me... Sorry

Good night.

Hopefully our nightmare will be over tomorrow.

I was about to say I was surprised that none of the news sources had picked up on this. i guess they couldn't email their stories in...

And here I thought it was because of my upgrade to 4.2...I've had NO data service for about 3 hours now. I noticed a friend's Cingular BB wasn't working either, I thought that was kind of strange. Sounds like a big outage! Hopefully it will be back up tomorrow.

Here's lookin' at you NJ...

"Me Too!"

hit and miss emails coming in to our Blackberry devices since 7pm or so EST. Reconciliation features seem most affected, email delivery to handhelds least affected.

For those trying to get into the irc channel and it says it's full... ooops. we can't get an admin to remove the limit. try joining #blackberry_outage instead.

-Lokatana

What I find most interesting about this is that *one* outage can take down the entire continent (or whatever parts of it); I mean, what ever happened to redundancy, rerouting and multiple backbones? How in the world can we be 100% (according to the post above) offline, is the system that non-fault tolerant?

I don't pretend to know what goes on behind the curtai