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Originally Posted by juwaack68
I'm having to actually check my email on my computer.
How old fashioned...
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LOL! Old-fashioned, indeed!
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Originally Posted by rehilliard
Management usually considers BB connectivity a Constitutional Right...
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As do some end users, apparently.
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Originally Posted by BigPotato1
I'm really getting sick of this....RIM's becoming as unstable as T-Mobile!
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No, that's
DANGER you're thinking of!
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Originally Posted by whsbuss
I think its time to rethink RIM. Been a blackberry users for 6 years but the iphone is starting to look good now.
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If you actually think the id10tPhone looks like a good alternative, you need to have your head examined!
But have no fear, when you become an Apple Zombie, I'll be ready to defend humanity! I'll be fully prepared, with my 12-gauge shotg... uh, *AHEM!* I mean ZOMBIE REPELLANT in hand!
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Originally Posted by SteveMRose
here in the Baltimore/DC area since around noon.
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Wow, how'd you get so "lucky"? It didn't go down for me until around 6:30ish. If it had gone down at noon, I would have run home on my lunch break and grabbed my laptop and my 3G broadband modem (which I would have been able to do since I was working only about 10 minutes from home!)
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Originally Posted by juwaack68
I'd never get that drastic. I hate touchscreens. Oh, and I have no AT&T service where I live
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That's a plus! I WISH we didn't have them here! One of my buddies has been with them since their days as
Stinkular, and his service is LOU-SY!
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Originally Posted by m4ilm4n
Well this sucks rocks - no BES since 17:30 EST. The CEO wants to switch to iPhones - hard to argue if the BB service dies likes this.
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Originally Posted by rambo47
Northern NJ
Sprint BIS
Email has come in sporadically all day.
No Browser, no BBM.
And no BBWeather!
The ultimate insult has been my wife with her iPhone getting all data services. She has no clue what she's doing, but she knows she's doing stuff that I'm not. RIM has had enough data outages lately that their uptime CANNOT be equal to the data provided by the carriers to non-BlackBerry devices. Their once-bulletproof services now looks like a slice of Swiss Cheese. Hey RIM - welcome to mediocracy.
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Originally Posted by tazeat
Screwed up on and off all day. T-Mo, WA, Curve 8900 using BIS. No email even over wifi/UMA.
I've been wanting to try an android device, I've had blackberries forever, but it's almost time to move on, even the new bb phones are feeling dated in comparison to the alternatives. And what's not to like about a phone that is so much more open? Java + BB Security stuff
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Originally Posted by TBOLTRAM
BIS - BlackBerry Intermittent Service.
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You guys are all acting as if RIM was suddenly somehow as bad as
DANGER. Trust me, they're NOT! You SERIOUSLY need to get a SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE here! Allow me to enlighten you all...
FACT: In March of 2005, only about 2 months after I switched from a Sidekick to a BlackBerry, Danger somehow managed to kill their back-end servers on a Sunday afternoon. Service was not restored until the following FRIDAY. That's right, a full
WEEK without service for Sidekick users! T-Mobile issued all the Sidekick users at the time a $20 credit on their bills, and Danger also did a limited period where Sidekick users could download anything they wanted from the Sidekick Catalog for FREE. So that outage cost both companies a LOT of money!
FACT: In October of 2009, 4½ years after the March '05 debacle, Danger, now owned by MICROSOFT, implemented some sort of upgrade on their back-end servers. In the process, they somehow managed to completely HOSE said servers, not only wiping out the Sidekick data service for at least 2 WEEKS, but ALSO managing to DELETE all the personal data (address books, photos, etc.) from the Sidekick users' devices, data which is stored for the long-term only "in the cloud". So, as users turned their devices off and then back on, trying to restore service, they faced the ultimate horror of having all their personal data DELETED from their devices, data which most of them never backed up themselves (because the Intellisync software to do so costs extra for Sidekick users) and which Danger/MS had no backup of, either... or so it appeared at the time. SOME user data was eventually restored, but by that point, Danger and its Sidekick had sustained significant and irreparable damage to their reputation. The Sidekick's days are very probably now numbered.
By comparison, RIM's occasional outages (and let's face it, we really only have 2-3 a year, typically) are minor. We still enjoy 98-99% uptime on the BlackBerries. But that doesn't change the fact that a BlackBerry service outage lasting only HALF A DAY is such a big deal to people around the world, that it's reported on the nightly national news as if it were one of the signs of the Apocalypse!
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Originally Posted by HiramRanger
My blackberry keeps turning the radio signal off on its own. I'm on AT&T and have a Bold. As soon as I hit the send button it asks me if it wants to restore the radio connection. Is this happening because of the outage?
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Maybe. Mine has been doing the same thing on T-Mobile. It's rather annoying.
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Originally Posted by rdef
The WAP browser will work without a BB data connection. It uses apn/tcpip...
Works fine.
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Originally Posted by zerog46
You should be able to use Bolt, or Opera.
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Hence why I posted THIS:
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Originally Posted by Jack T. Chance
Here in MD, on T-Mobile, I've had only WAP for awhile now. All the BIS services have been down. Can't send or receive email, can't use the IM clients, can't use the BB Internet Browser. I'm posting this using Opera Mini, which is still working because it runs through the WAP data system.
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Originally Posted by SteveE
How did most of you find out about the outage?
Dataoutages mail list?
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Bingo. Their first few emails about the issue came through BEFORE my service went out completely at about 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. At the time, it seemed to only be affecting BlackBerry Messenger. But then my Official BB AIM client disconnected from AIM and could not reconnect. And it only got worse from there.