April 18th, 2007
EXCLUSIVE: I've just called all the major BlackBerry carriers- here's what they say about outage
Cingular-AT&T- National outage, working on the problem, many service tickets open..
SprintNextel- At this time, nationwide data outage, no estimated time to fix. Advises against troubleshooting your BlackBerry device.
Verizon- There is a current nationwide BlackBerry outage, BlackBerry customers unable to send or receive messages. BlackBerry team is working on it.
T-Mobile: Recorded message: "We are currently experiencing problems in your market, which may impact your ability to send or receive email, use text messaging or send/receive email on your BlackBerry. Our support teams are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."
and, of course:
BlackBerry- we are currently experiencing serivce interruptions which may cause delays in sending or receiving email…message added that the BlackBerry network is expected to be fully functional "soon."
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
