BlackBerry Internet Service stricken with global outages?
By Ross Miller 
posted Nov 16th 2009 11:39PM
posted Nov 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!
It's down in Fort Lauderdale - FL
Works for me. Rogers' BIS.
I think my email is still coming through, though seems delayed a bit. Facebook app can't connect to server and looks like WeatherBug is a no-go as well. Huzzah....
It's been down for me on T-Mobile most of the day. I love Blackberry, but why must they send web browsing and other data through their proxy server? I understand email going through their servers, but other data? Why?
Switching to "Hotspot Browser" worked today (which directs browsing through wi-fi direct to the internet.) Why don't they program the browser for smarter connectivity ie always choose the fastest available connection with no toggling in the end user's part?
So many questions...
It's more secure and no blocked sites. The BB browser was the only way I could get on a number of websites when I was in China, and a number of standalone apps would have been blocked otherwise as well.
working fine on sprint in michigan
Email fine, internet browsing down in SF on Verizon.
And I've been thinking of dumping my SideKick for a Bold 9700 due to the SideKick fiasco! I just can't justify $70 per month for an iPhone or Droid! But this makes me not sure what to do.
yeah, BIS issues tonight w/a blackberry curve. something invalidated one of my accounts as well sometime on Friday (password corruption?) had to reset it tonight. zero issues until today.
Question is why does the browser have to connect via RIMs services? shouldn't it be independent of that?
My email still works, I just can't browse webpages on my CDMA Storm. Likewise for anyone else I've asked tonight, which has been around 10 people.
I just got the new 9700 today and I've been using the phone all day in Des Moines with no problems at all. I'd be pissed if things went down the first day I had a new phone...
No problems on T-Mobile all day here in the central CA valley.
Has been up and down here in Sacramento. Had a customer with a Curve not working but his wife's Curve did. My own Curve was intermittent. But is working right now.
The Blackberry 8830 does not have this feature. It does not have a stylus, and you are not able to write on the screen. You should look into the Treo Phones.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Premium-White-Pro-Review---Does-Premium-White-Pro-Work?&id=3205190
browser seems to work no prob in CT on my verizon bb tour. all 3rd party apps aren't working though.
My Tour is working fine here in SoCal
Could it be the Meteor shower expected sometime tonight?
The service is completely unstable. Bold on Etisalat in the United Arab Emirates.
Well, that explains why when I updated yesterday, had no Email, but Browser, and TweetGenius worked fine. (Then again the latter was quite happy running on WiFi)
Just left work....Email all day of BIS down on iden and CDMA...
Outages like this are exactly why I don't realize why so many people and corporations are so willing to hand their data out to a middleman before reaching their phones.
In London UK on O2, my 9000 is absolutely fine.
That's what it was!!! I was trying to browse and it was forever requesting. I dunno about email though, i don't get much of that.
download opera mini works like a charm
I wondered what the heck was going on last night!
My wife had intermittent e-mail and web access via BIS. I seemed to still have E-Mail via BES but flakey data service at best.
Both on VZW (Wife has an 8830, I have a Storm).
Seems to be fine this morning...
It's down. Claro provider. At Río Gallegos, Argentina.
Down also on Movistar here
Great day for the outage! I upgraded to the Bold 9700 at about 7pm PST last night and the service acted buggy for at least 3 hours. Seems to be better this morning, will see how it performs.
Down with Verizon in NY
It was down for me last night (Alberta, Canada) and intermittent this morning, but right this moment it seems fine. When it was down, email, Text, BBM etc... were all working fine (BIS here). Just internet wasn't working.
OT but the updated Movies app for Blackberry by Flixster (version 1.1.6) just isn't working on my Bold, just shows "Loading Movies..." and the spinning reel forever. Wish there was a way to get the old version back which worked fine.
That explains a lot ..
Aw, great. I get out of my Sidekick contract for this.
My storm 2 on verizon has been all weird since yesterday. It keeps saying requesting and never does anything.
AT&T BIS has been fine in Memphis.