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BlackBerry hit by service outage in America

Tom Warren Neowin @tomwarren · Dec 23, 2009 03:10 EST · Hot! with 28 comments

Research In Motion (RIM) have confirmed an issue with their BlackBerry service affecting customers in North America.

According to a RIM spokesperson "Some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are currently experiencing delays in message delivery." The outage began at approximately 8PM EST on December 22. RIM failed over their systems but many users reported that mail flow to devices had ceased once again. At the time of writing there is no ETA from RIM when their systems will fully recover.

The outage is the second for RIM in that past five days. The last wide-scale outage was back in February 2008 when a software upgrade at RIM downed the service for hours. Phone calling and texting services remain unaffected.

Update: RIM have confirmed that BlackBerry services are now up and running.