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BlackBerry Service Down in US and Canada

Posted Feb 11, 08 6:45 PM CST in Technology 

(Newser) – Blackberry's wireless service is down across the US and Canada today, PC World reports. Blackberry-maker Research in Motion, at a loss to explain the outage, first reported it at 3:30 p.m. EST and called the outage "ongoing." Only half of Blackberries are currently without email, RIM added.

A software upgrade last weekend temporarily disrupted Blackberry service, and an outage last April left web-deprived customers upset with RIM's slow response time. But RIM has not indicated that there's any connection between the three blackouts.

Sources: PC World, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal

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A new Blackberry phone is seen at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Blackberry owners in the US and Canada experienced a service disruption today that kept them from...   (Associated Press)
For the globetrotter, the BlackBerry(R) 8830 World Edition smartphone (left) coupled with Verizon Wireless' Global BlackBerry Service provides customers with the ability to place and receive domestic...   (Associated Press)
Attendees pose with a person dressed as a BlackBerry at the BlackBerry booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. American and Canadian Blackberry users experienced...   (Associated Press)
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