BlackBerry Service Out in N. America

AP ^ | Monday February 11, 5:23 pm ET

[BenLurkin]

NEW YORK (AP) -- An outage has disconnected BlackBerry smart phones across North America. AT&T Inc. says the disruption Monday is affecting all wireless carriers. AT&T first learned about the problem at about 3:30 p.m. EST.

There's no word on the cause or when the problem might be fixed.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion did not immediately return a phone call.

[mnehring]

RIM (Blackberry) provides the behind the scenese push transport pipes to send the e-mail to the device from the company servers or desktop redirector. I bet they must have different pipelines for CDMA and GSM carriers as I have been receiving my e-mails.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My BB has a Verizon phone and email from SBC. At least it did.

[Lazamataz]

Third place still pays at the track.

[BenLurkin]

emails coming in now.

Back to work!

[JennysCool]

[Lazamataz]

RIM (Blackberry) provides the behind the scenese

I hate the Scenese people.

[DeFault User]

AT&T has their best working on it.

[mnehring]

LOL... caught me typing to quick and not proofing.. I should remember there is a little ‘spell’ button there. :->

[PugetSoundSoldier]

can you hear me now? : )

Ahh, the Verizon® slogan. And yes I can - thankfully I have the unlimited data plan with my WindowsMobile smart phone that gets e-mails from 3 different servers: one pushed, the other two pulled every 10 minutes...:)

So I guess, not only can I hear you now, I can read you now! In fact, posting from my SCH-i760 phone right now!

[oiler]

Terrorism was immediately ruled out./s

[Squidpup]

Blackberries are out

[BenLurkin]

Their certainty is...

[LadyPilgrim]

I’m on the phone with my FREEPER son right now and he still has use of his Blackberry in NE Arkansas.

[Resolute Conservative]

My rotary phone still works! Technology, bah!

[Not A Snowbird]

And pray! Pray with all your might!

You're more right than you know. He's trying to get out of Mexico.

[acw011]

I’m down since 2:30 CST.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I think AP defines North America as Boston, NY, Wash DC and the United Nations.

[Hoffer Rand]

Oh great. Now my notoriously addicted hubby is going to go all twitchy from crackberry withdrawal.

[r9etb]

I know a lot of folks who have probably assumed the following position:

[xsmommy]

show off! ; )