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Blackout hits BlackBerry users North America wide

Posted by Rob Lewis on Tue, December 22, 2009 10:33 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Mobile · Comments

A widespread service outage affected BlackBerry users across North America this evening. BlackBerry maker Waterloo-based Research in Motion has confirmed there are some email delays.

A spokesperson for RIM said the company is working to fix the problem, but could give no estimate when service will be restored.

The outage comes on the heels of another BlackBerry email outage in North America that struck on December 17th.

Company:: Research In Motion
Website:: http://www.rim.net
Location:: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

BlackBerry (Research In Motion) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile... [more]

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