Another Blackberry outage strikes

RIM APPEARS to be in denial again over yet another Crackberry outage. This one happened on Friday night [7th September] but, as usual, RIM has published no information on its web site.

Instead the company seems to have been content with putting out a statement to a few news agencies. According to AP, it said, "Research in Motion is continuing to monitor the situation and apologises to customers for any inconvenience."

However, the agency reported that even after e-mail service was restored, "slowdowns persisted into Friday night as message backlogs were being cleared out."

The only good news is that the outage only affected those using the plebs version of its service - BIS (Blackberry Internet service) - not the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) favoured by corporates.

Typically there's no indication of how quickly the problems will clear up. Which doesn't exactly inspire confidence in its userbase.

This mistrust in the Crackberry has already led workers in the French president and prime minister's offices being ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them.

And it's not just the French. It's been reported that the US National Security Council has said that the White House has set up a special taskforce to consider whether the administration needs to restrict the use of Blackberries through concerns about cyber spying - in the most recent instance allegedly by Chinese hackers. µ

See Also
Better optimisation caused RIM's Crackberries to crack
RIM was just lucky with cracked Tuesday
RIM says there's no problem with European Blackberries