blackberry email issue

Big Chris · 12 Oct 2011 at 16:12

Spawn said:
http://www.rim.com/newsroom/service-update.shtml

Can't get the page to load

I guess most of the world is trying at the same time though...

tom_e · 12 Oct 2011 at 16:16

http://uk.blackberry.com/serviceupdate/

Yas786 · 12 Oct 2011 at 16:17

Big Chris said:
Can't get the page to load I guess most of the world is trying at the same time though...

LOL...cant get any worse lol

Myshra · 12 Oct 2011 at 16:21

Needs some kind of traffic light system to show BBM, BES, BIS and Browsing. At least (some) of the networks kept people updated regarding the outage, more than can be said for RIM. I doubt RIM will pull this stunt twice though.

dave_beast · 12 Oct 2011 at 18:05

I think this will be the final nail in RIM

thedoc46 · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:57

dave_beast said:
I think this will be the final nail in RIM

Yep, today has been horrid. (In the USA) We have a percentage of our big cats on BB's still. Actually all are really upset, as they are supposed to be all meeting at a big conference. Most are now talking about switching over to the iPhone..

I can see huge losses for RIM over this.

Yas786 · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:17

RIM just had a press conference call regarding the outage and it was unbelievably bad...no real answers, nothing that we dont know lol.

What a complete and utter **** up by RIM...hate to say it but this looks to be the beginning of the end of RIM....how they can get back from this is beyond me....just terrible terrible showing from RIM

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http://crackberry.com/blackberry-service-update-press-conference-3pm-est

Westyfield2 · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:28

BBM going down just annoyed a few kids. But affecting BES just ****ed off the whole corporate market!

Magic_x_uk · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:59

Well I was upgrading via orange to the 9900 from the 8900 I have had for the last 23 months yesterday, but after all this polava, I do not know what to do.

I do not wish to take on a new BB9900 for 24 months if there is going to be any long term problems.

xGBHxPegasus · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:08

thedoc46 said:
Yep, today has been horrid. (In the USA) We have a percentage of our big cats on BB's still. Actually all are really upset, as they are supposed to be all meeting at a big conference. Most are now talking about switching over to the iPhone..

I can see huge losses for RIM over this.

Same at work, every man/women/VIP/Super VIP's phoning up every 5 mins asking "When will it be fixed?/Im still not receiving e-mails!"

Yas786 · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:20

Magic_x_uk said:
Well I was upgrading via orange to the 9900 from the 8900 I have had for the last 23 months yesterday, but after all this polava, I do not know what to do.

I do not wish to take on a new BB9900 for 24 months if there is going to be any long term problems.

There wont, of course there will always be some downtime but come on lets not get this twisted...this is the worst downtime ive ever seen or heard of since i been using BB's...and lets not forget nothing is 100% reliable EVER.

But its pretty shoddy showing on RIMs behalf tbh.

Hxc · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:36

I still have zero BIS :/

teaboy5 · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:37

Spawn said:
There wont, of course there will always be some downtime but come on lets not get this twisted...this is the worst downtime ive ever seen or heard of since i been using BB's...and lets not forget nothing is 100% reliable EVER.

But its pretty shoddy showing on RIMs behalf tbh.

I agree with spawn here, given the size of RIM it really is a joke they have been down for this long. If it was for say 3 to 4 hours I would forgive them, but its been down for days now.

Yas786 · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:43

Also remember that RIM move over 20 petabytes, thats 2048tb of data PER DAY through their data centres/servers...so with that amount of data being passed thru daily, theres bound to be some problems along the way ie downtime etc.

Freaking crazy amount if data being passed through RIM servers :eek:

Myshra · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:27

It's big but there are a lot bigger fishes in the market who do a lot more (akami, Amazon WS). If you include Inter-data centre then probably thousands of companies will pull more.

This isn't the end of RIM by a mile but this was a large mistake that will take time to heal.

roysters · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:38

BBM has JUST started working for me right now..... probably wont last...

opethdisciple · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:47

Our whole company relies on Blackberry.

We have had users with no email for the last 3 days! (At the busiest week of the year - literraly)

Are emails working now?

mrk · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:59

yimpster · 13 Oct 2011 at 07:20

just had a few BES messages flow through from yesterday at 7:10am this morning - then tried a test message to myself - wouldnt work

Magic_x_uk · 13 Oct 2011 at 07:39

all working now for me, x6 email accounts, bbm etc