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Blackberry Outage December 22nd: BBM Outage Could be a Day to Fix

by Amy Judd | December 22, 2009 at 06:53 pm

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There is another Blackberry Outage today December 22nd and some reports say that the BBM outage could be a day to fix, although it could also be as short as three hours but be prepared for longer just in case.

There are no e-mails, web browsing or Blackberry Messenger for the North American users at this time.

Lots of reports have been coming in over the past hour of BlackBerry Messenger service being on the fritz. You'll sometimes get a check mark on a sent message, but not the D or the R signifying that the message has been delivered and read.

Some users' messages are going through and some are just coming right back to the sender.

Users are reporting that T-Mobile and AT&T are affected, as is Rogers in Canada.

If you have any updates, let us know below.

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Alberto Amador (not verified)

at 19:30 on December 22nd, 2009

THis is affecting Central America also, Panama don't have data cover on any carrier for bb users.

Not Touring (not verified)

at 19:40 on December 22nd, 2009

Internet access has been slow all day on my Tour. Now I can't access the internet at all

Bethhhel (not verified)

at 19:41 on December 22nd, 2009

Verizon is also affected.

carlos lar (not verified)

at 19:48 on December 22nd, 2009

Honduras is affected too also and i wan't to know when it would be fixed

stephanie ybarra (not verified)

at 19:50 on December 22nd, 2009

Sprint told me @ 4:00 pst that it would be fixedby 7:23pst but its not yet, i think thats just what they were telling people, tired of waiting!

stevo g (not verified)

at 19:51 on December 22nd, 2009

well dont this just suck....i feel like a blackberry prison bitch...and it hurts

Tracy G. (not verified)

at 19:52 on December 22nd, 2009

Verizon Blackberry service is out as well.

Nick C (not verified)

at 20:34 on December 22nd, 2009

RIM's website is useless and doesn't even acknowledge outage

A. Tran

at 22:38 on December 22nd, 2009

It's the second time that Blackberry has failed in less than a week. People are fuming and vented on Twitter.

Hundreds of messages are hitting social-network services like Twitter every few minutes from users experiencing problems. The volume indicates the problems are widespread and across more than one carrier.

The support line and RIM's Internet-based support forums offered no additional information on how long the outage is expected to last.

Piush Gupta (not verified)

at 23:00 on December 22nd, 2009

Email and internet access down. What is surprising is that that even web access using wifi is down - anyone know why BES/BIS outage would effect my going to google.com using a wifi-connection?