# Nationwide BlackBerry Outtage 2/11/2008
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [February 11, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421 "2008-02-11T15:07:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/1 "2008-02-11T15:07:56Z")
began at 3:18pm today according to my BES and confirmed by Sprint/Nextel rep. pwn3d. :stick:
You can’t even get through to their 2377 main support line…rofl! completely dead.
> **[BlackBerry Outage Strikes Across North America](https://www.cnbc.com/id/23116502)**
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> A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada on Monday.
> E-mail service of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones experienced a “critical severity outage” on Monday, the company told clients in an e-mail.
> BlackBerry outage, RIM, RIMM
> RIM was not immediately available for comment and its e-mail gave no estimate on when service may be restored or how many individuals could be affected.
> Shares of RIM traded
> Research In Motion Ltd
> RIMM
> 94.47 4.76 +5.31%
> NASDAQ
> Quote | Chart | News | Profile | Add to Watchlist
> [RIMM 94.47 4.76 (+5.31%)] about 1 percent lower in extended trading Monday after closing 5.31 percent higher during regular market hours.
> Last April, a massive outage crashed BlackBerry service across North America, leaving thousands of users without access to wireless e-mail.
> Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said at the time that such incidents were "very rare’’ and the Waterloo, Ontario-based company was taking steps to prevent such an outage from happening again.
> Executives, politicians, lawyers and other professionals rely on the BlackBerry for its ability to send secure e-mails.
> More Technology News
> RIM is also adding more retail customers to its subscriber base, which late last year reached about 12 million people worldwide.
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### Author:  [@SmokinDiesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SmokinDiesel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/2 "2008-02-11T15:11:12Z")
My blackberry is working fine tho? … I have Verizon network … :dunno:
EDIT … Phone works as a phone, but can’t get online or anything … Wonder how long this will last?
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/3 "2008-02-11T15:13:29Z")
> [@FS!!!!!!!21 and older please. NOW WITH PICS](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-21-and-older-please-now-with-pics/34760/18):
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> My blackberry is working fine tho? … I have Verizon network … :dunno:
This affects BlackBerry Enterprise Services. If you’re POP’ing to your mailbox or whatever you should be fine yea.
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### Author:  [@SmokinDiesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SmokinDiesel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/4 "2008-02-11T15:21:29Z")
Just wont let me online … I guess this is why huh?
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/5 "2008-02-11T15:27:11Z")
> [@FS: 1972 vw ...kit car](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1972-vw-kit-car/34559/142):
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> Just wont let me online … I guess this is why huh?
Oh yea, that’s beat too. w/e. There’s alot of pissed off people in the world lol
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### Author:  [@SmokinDiesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SmokinDiesel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/6 "2008-02-11T15:29:29Z")
lol … any idea how long this will last?
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### Author:  [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/7 "2008-02-11T15:33:03Z")
well this is interesting
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### Author:  [@noahTHEpurdy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/noahTHEpurdy)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/8 "2008-02-11T15:35:10Z")
Haha, this has made work interesting.
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### Author:  [@Swarzkopf](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Swarzkopf)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/9 "2008-02-11T15:38:09Z")
This means no security alerts for me tonight. I’m not complaining. 😃
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/10 "2008-02-11T15:56:23Z")
> [@What just happend at mighty ?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-just-happend-at-mighty/34868/8):
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> lol … any idea how long this will last?
They’re hoping to have it back up by tomorrow morning.
> [@What just happend at mighty ?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-just-happend-at-mighty/34868/11):
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> This means no security alerts for me tonight. I’m not complaining. 😃
lol, ditto that!
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### Author:  [@SmokinDiesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SmokinDiesel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/11 "2008-02-11T16:07:26Z")
> [@Introducing Voltron...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/introducing-voltron/34857/9):
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> They’re hoping to have it back up by tomorrow morning.
Cool … Thanks man!
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### Author:  [@Silver\_WS6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver_WS6)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/12 "2008-02-11T16:18:12Z")
i think its working now ?? i just got like 20 emails but mine only went down around 3:45 today
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### Author:  [@SmokinDiesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SmokinDiesel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/13 "2008-02-11T16:35:57Z")
> [@What just happend at mighty ?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-just-happend-at-mighty/34868/19):
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> i think its working now ?? i just got like 20 emails but mine only went down around 3:45 today
I got the interweb back as well!
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/14 "2008-02-11T17:25:13Z")
> [@What just happend at mighty ?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-just-happend-at-mighty/34868/19):
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> i think its working now ?? i just got like 20 emails but mine only went down around 3:45 today
yea, got a test at 7. We were getting connection errors since lunch time.
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### Author:  [@Cheeks](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cheeks)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/15 "2008-02-11T18:09:59Z")
I love my “Q”
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### Author:  [@Bravada\_442](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bravada_442)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/16 "2008-02-11T20:35:16Z")
Mine went down on the internet around 3:30pm as I was going to the South Hills.
Got it back somewhere between 7 and 8 while I was playing basketball. No internet at all meant no maps for me. That sucked.
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### Author:  [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/17 "2008-02-11T20:38:36Z")
i am getting sporatic emails… kinda funny
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### Author:  [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/18 "2008-02-12T04:44:17Z")
> [@f\*uck that f\*ucking chargepipe...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/f-uck-that-f-ucking-chargepipe/34876/8):
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> i am getting sporatic emails… kinda funny
still getting service interruption err’s throughout the night and this morning
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nationwide-blackberry-outtage-2-11-2008/195421/19 "2008-02-12T04:47:21Z")
checked the bes server… last report time on mine 64 days 9 hours LOL!