Glastonbury CT - 7:00 EST 4/18/07

EDGE
No browsing
No email (BES)
No PIN

Shame on RIM for not having a status page. Going by news reports, RIM hasn't issued any type of in-depth report of what the issue may be.

If it continues past 9am they'll be forced to be more formal or wind up closer to the front page on CNN and WSJ.

Alexandria, VA here

No EDGE on my device others in my office have EDGE but I still have no browsing no email and no PIN.

Nashua, NH

EDGE
No PIN,
No Internet
No email since 10:41 PM (BIS)

this sucks the sucky sucky suck! down on cngular in baltimore.

Nothing working in Bethesda, Maryland area yet either.

San diego just went up.... .well I got EDGE at least tried service books and its a no go and my browser just dissapeared again

Beachwood Ohio, lower edge...no email since somtime during the nite.

Arlington, VA

0730

EDGE, No Browser, No Email, down since 1830 last night.

For what it is worth...and probably not much, I just got off phone with Cingular/AT&T and they claim outage is over half of US and they have no clue when they expect it to be back up, except to give generic answer of 24 hours.

I'm in Washington DC Area.

MF

Simsbury, CT - email is starting to come through from Cingular.

RIM's Blackberry system down, affects millions - Apr. 18, 2007

We are starting to see some users messages get delivered.

Im relieved i was thinkin it was my device!! RIM will have this fixed

N. Illinois still down

Mason, Ohio
lower-case edge
no email
no data service
out since approximately 4:00AM Wed.

Web Browser down since 7pm last night.
Did get a few emails
Sprint

Still nothing in Michigan.

I'm a Cingular user in Chicago, and still nothing through either my BES or BIS. :(

EDGE
no email
no web
BIS

I just now started getting internet again.

I tried doing a "Register Now" in the host routing table and did receive a successful notification. However still 1xev and no email/internet here in Phila, PA.

Message flow seems to have resumed for us on Cingular (corporate BES) in the Washington, DC area...

edge

South Florida

down :(

Cingular rep said "hundreds" of people are working on it--no time frame on when it'll be restored

Central NJ - Cingular

EDGE
Email is starting to come in and catch up (BIS)
No browser

VZW - NYC

Network - 1xev (as opposed to 1XEV)
PIN/BB MSGR - Down
Web Browsing - Down
Push Messaging - Down
My Day - fscked

I tried calling Cingular and chose the "problems with e-mail" option and was told that my call "could not be completed for reasons beyond Cingular's control" - I'm guessing they are getting a lot of calls right now.

Morning,

I'm in DC and have 1xev.

Phone works...heheheh.
All other functionality (data) is dead.

Tech Grunt

Does anyone know what the 1xev (lower case) indicate as appose to the normal 1XEV. I know about the BES issues currently going on.

Thanks.

IP

South Carolina is down...

In Richmmond, VA.

Same...tmo.

Odd thing being, some of my coworkers are getting their email, but some are being sporadic at best.

CT- cingular
same issues as NYC and NJ
e-mail is starting to come through.

Arlington, VA here. Mail has been flowing pretty well for about an hour. MDS works, still no internet on the provider browser though.

We're on TMO and Cingular.

E-mail went down about 9:30 cdt last night, then I got a few messages apparently around 12:30 am then nothing since.

my cingular (er, at&t) blackberry service died but seems to have come back to life sometime this morning. i was thinking maybe just my carrier but i guess broader than that...

Update: BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S.

BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S.
Problems began last night on the West Coast

April 18, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion Ltd. appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S.

Customers on the BlackBerry Forums discussion board complained of having no service starting at about 5:15 p.m. PDT Tuesday.

Callers to the BlackBerry U.S. technical support line were still greeted with the following message early Wednesday morning: "We are currently experiencing a service interruption that is causing delays in sending or receiving messages. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide updates as soon as they become available."

New York television news channel NewsChannel4 reported Tuesday night that the problem affected "all users in the Western hemisphere." Postings to BlackBerry Forums indicated that the problem may be limited to North America, however.

"Officials with RIM said they are trying to reset the system and told NewsChannel4 that they are concerned that the backlog of data, which will rush through when it comes back on line, could cause a bigger problem," the news station reported on its Web site.

RIM officials advised people who use Blackberry as a major way of communications to make back-up plans, the TV station reported.

A trouble ticket from T-Mobile said customers in all markets were experiencing "intermittent issues when sending and receiving e-mail from BlackBerry devices," according to one of the forum postings. It said the problem affected all markets and all geographies.

RIM didn't immediately return calls for comment.

Peter Sayer, of the IDG News Service, contributed to this report.

Update: BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S.

With a shout out to BB Forums, no less.

Web browsing - up (Wash, DC on Cingular)

aggravating - the lady two doors down claims she is up, I'm not. We're both individual users on BIS - I use Mail Connector, no email, no internet. Lexington, KY, 8:10am, 4/18/2007.

You basically answered your own question.
Lower case letters = No connection to RIMs data network.
You have a carrier signal from Verizon to make/receive phone calls, but can't authenticate to RIM's servers for data.

1XEV = full data connectivity (high speed) including email/internet
1xev = digital connectivity (low speed) no email/internet

Check your BB quick setup guide.

CNBC is doing a piece on it right now

This is the MAIN reason why BB-Outage list was setup at Bb-Outage Info Page

It's too bad that we can't get people at RIM to post to it when something happens.