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BlackBerry says an outage hit network customers today, but claims that services are getting back to normal. UK readers told us that BlackBerry network services died at 10am this morning. BlackBerry confirmed the problems via Twitter three hours later and provided us with this statement: We can confirm that our technical …

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  1. Electric Panda
    Joke

    South Park said it best

    "What garbage!"

    "Well what do you expect, they're Canadian!"

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  2. Bill the Sys Admin
    Mushroom

    its out.

    It most certainly is burst!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Our Corporate BB service has been down because of this since at least 11am - no sign of recovery yet

    Blackberry - Dingleberry more like

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  4. b1tchell
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    The sooner they are put out of their misery

    the better it will be for all of us.

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    1. asdf
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      Re: The sooner they are put out of their misery

      But then who would compete with Microsoft for that rounding error of market share most outfits would safely classify as other?

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  5. 1Rafayal
    Pint

    and there was me thinking it was just a quiet Friday afternoon!!!

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  6. Darryl
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    Funny - I don't recall such vitriolic comments when Apple's network service went titsup multiple times a few weeks ago

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    1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
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      Funny - I don't recall such vitriolic comments when Apple's network service went titsup multiple times a few weeks ago

      The issue with RIM/Blackberry devices, is that all messages have to go through their servers. With Apple (& Windows & Android) the phones talk direct to your mail provider/servers.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        The Apple outages were iMessage and iCloud, so users were still heavily impacted, and they kept recurring for several days. But it's Apple, so all is forgiven.

        Additionally, with BB10, non-corporate email or corporate non-BES email aren't affected by Relay outages.

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  7. Gil Grissum
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    iMessage went down too

    The iMessage outage wasn't the same as Blackberry Services going down and affecting your ability to communicate with your e-mail, BBM, and other Blackberry users. With the iMessage outage, you could chat via other services and it didn't affect e-mail. E-mail goes down and you're REALLY screwed. So, between this and the clueless CEO being asleep at the wheel regarding tablets, I'm no longer interested in BB10 anything and will wait for the Note 3.

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  8. Jerry G.
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    I am a heavy Blackberry user. I did not notice any outage. I use my phone for email, web based applications, scheduling, and etc throughout the day. I use my phone for both personal and work.

    Maybe this outage was not global???

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  9. Confuciousmobil
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    Eleven

    Eleven comments?

    I guess that's 90% of Blackberry users that still care....

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