[nylug-talk] RIM just announced (VIA NBC News) a widespread outage

[Larry Dukhovny]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGtD3q8RLSZUDnMruP4vx-LQe1pgD8UP2MLO0

"The company behind the BlackBerry smart phones said a three-hour e-mail
outage Monday was caused by an upgrade designed to increase capacity.

Research in Motion Ltd. Tuesday said the upgrade was part of "routine
and ongoing efforts," and that similar upgrades in the past had caused
no problems. ..."

-Larry

Zach Stern wrote:
> I've actually had near-perfect service with mine.
> 
> I think that may be a function of t-mobile's total suckage. They are
> consistently rated the worst of the major wireless providers you know.
> 
> The only benefit of t-mobile is the price of their plans.
> 
> On 2/13/08, Mark Simko <masimko at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello!
>>> Having stated that via the subject, would everyone who uses a one of
>>> the things to read list mail promptly comment if theirs still works?
>>>
>>> And its been like this for the past two hours as of when this was just
>> posted.
>>> --
>> I didn't notice, because mine never gets updates in a timely manner
>> anyway. I frequently have to turn the wireless off and on again to get
>> it to download emails. When this contract with tmobile is up in August,
>> I am sooooo not renewing with them. This bberry has been a huge
>> disappointment.
>>
>>
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