BlackBerry Internet Service stricken with global outages?
By Ross Miller 
posted November 16th 2009 11:39PM
posted November 16th 2009 11:39PM
Looks like BlackBerry Internet Services is having a rough night, with a number of sites reporting it being down not just in North America, but also elsewhere around the world. A handful of tipsters have expressed similar issues, and though we've had some weirdness with our service tonight, it seems to be working well enough. So tell us, how's BIS doing for you tonight?
That's why you run BES. 'nuff said.
Not all companies support BES.
Don't people pay extra to take advantage of the BES feature? I've never heard of palms, nokia's or apples servers crash and not allowing all of their users to access anything web based!
No wonder RIM's share price was down today. It appears that RIM is going down for the count since companies will soon be starting to dump BlackBerrys for alternate, less costly solutions. Everyone wants a free ride with Android.
@ average white boy
"No wonder RIM's share price was down today."
---The outage has nothing to do with RIMs share price being down genius. Do you trade that stock? I think not cause no trader i know makes that assumption. Lets do this. You go short, Ill go long. lets see whos the right.
"It appears that RIM is going down for the count since companies will soon be starting to dump BlackBerrys for alternate, less costly solutions."
---Oh okay. What are the alternate solutions that are less costly?
"Everyone wants a free ride with Android."
---Name one a fortune 500 company (except GOOG) that has android as their choice for secure email. I thought so.
IDGAF because i'm too poor for data services. I get Wifi access everywhere at college, so booya! Took me hours to unlock Wifi, though. I don't get why it was locked without a data plan in the first place. Screw you AT&T...
The BB fanboys always talk about how wonderful BB's proprietary mail
server is until the outage occurs! LOL This isn't the first time and won't be
the last time I'm afraid.
That's why i just use Exchange...screw BES and BIS lol.
@ Ninja
Name one company that hasnt had its share of outages?....STFU...You sound like a idiot.
my sprint BB tour and TMobile Bold2 are both down 100%
I just downloaded an email a minute ago. Seems to be working fine. I'm in San Jose, CA on Sprint.
aaaand I spoke too soon. I just tried googling something on my Tour and no dice. Sigh. I love my Tour's hardware but gosh darnit, RIM needs to find a new way of handling internet services. It's pretty annoying that if their servers screw up I'm completely cut off from the web.
What about using opera mobile?
I believe that the data would be routed via your providers WAP portal rather than BIS,
at least it did when I had a BB on AT&T
Down in Colombia... bb messenger and mail are fine, but can't use the browser!!!
Exact same deal here in Sask, Canada. Certain data services are working, but internet and email are intermittent at best.
BIS down. BES works great.
Verizon BB Internet down in Chicagoland Area.....just makes me want to burn my Storm even more!
It is working just fi
Its very very slow in Kansas City MO
down in ohio....
It's down here in Illinois.
I cant update facebook or my weather app via BIS, only over WiFi. :(
YES, it's called the blackberry browser.
Looks like it's down here. Tried signing onto Gmail with my Storm and no dice; Verizon's my current carrier. :(
Just started working again.............in Buffalo
mines down, LIME cayman islands.
be thankful you live in the caymans! i went there once and it was amazing.
my palm pre's internet is working fine.
back up in baltimore
iDon't have random data service outages.
Really? You want to play this game? OK.....
On AT&T it's not random, you just don't have service...
There's a map for that.
You always know when you will have 3G coverage, and when it will just be EDGE.
Of course not, you always running on Edge hahahahahha
Down here in SoCal. It's been down since I woke up from my nap at 7:30 :(
was down now good in Towson MD
I thought this was just me. Facebook wont work and internet will work one second and then not work the next. I have voice and MMS/SMS. Data is just shady. Decatur, IL here
No problems here. Hollywood, CA.
My AT&T Bold 9000 has BIS, 3G and 5 bars voice, just like usual.
BB service alright here in nova scotia, was having some issues before but that may just be google maps.
Thought my Tour was crapping out, I couldn't access Gmail for some reason.
OC, CA.
I hardly ever use the browser, but wanted it for something a couple of hours ago. Didn't work. This explains it.
Email is fine.
I'm in Los Angeles, btw.
Email is fine. Browsing is intermittent. I had similar issues last night. On Verizon with a Curve in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Internet service was down for a couple hours in NYC, but seems to be slowly up and running again. I thought Verizon had temporarily become as bad as AT&T......
I've been fine the entire day. No problems here.
BBRY Bold 9000 AT&T, Hollywood, California
email works, but internet is not working.
down on long island, NY. this blows.
It's all my fault.
I shouldn't have called out RIM for their shitty Facebook app [with cruise control no less] yesterday in the post about the shitty webOS Facebook app.
Now the Berrygods are punishing me.
Forgive me Rimulous, I will never glance at a Droid in the Verizon store again!
Reading autoblog mobile just fine on mine in Vancouver.
Oh wow...where was that poster that commented about how Google's gmail was unreliable, and RIM was awesome? Hello, where are you now?
i think he can't comment because his internet service is down
Just picked up a new T-mobile Bold 9700. Email is working fine. Internet is Totally Down! I thought it was just installation chaos or a faulty backup. Good to know my new purchase may not be a complete waste of money. I'm in the Washington DC Metro Area (Silver Spring, MD to be exact). Can't wait to start surfing those 3G Waves!