[secretspaz]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage?
I cant connect to any of my data services..
It just started about 30 minutes ago.

I'm in Southern California.

[Thatzmister2u]

Nor Cal AT&T I am fine. Did you try a battery pull by chance?

[JSanders]

All is well here, AT&T, BIS, Birmingham.

I knew someone would cry wolf.

[secretspaz]

yup.
Ill try again just in case..

[audit]

NOTHING has come across the Outage List and everything is good here on the BES and I'm getting slammed with BIS emails.

[NJBlackBerry]

I can't believe it's the first one!

[secretspaz]

Second battery pull did nothing =(

Maybe its T-mo specific?

eh, I shouldnt be doing this at work anyway..

[Sith_Apprentice]

what does it say in the top right corner for network coverage?

[kpatyk]

RIM is currently experiencing an issue that is causing approximately 50% of BlackBerry customers to be without service. This outage is affecting all carriers.

RIM is working diligently to resolve the issue, and there is no ETA for when connections will be restored at this time.

[daphne]

Posted here, which is an unusual thing for SANS to post.

SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc

RIM Blackberry outage
Published: 2008-02-12,
Last Updated: 2008-02-12 00:16:47 UTC
by Stephen Hall (Version: 1)
A number of readers have contacted us about the current RIM Blackberry outage. It would appear that this is affecting a large number of Blackberry users in the US. Although this is not a security posting, we do understand that a lot of security and system admin staff are attached to their Blackberry so its time to hold together fellow admins until the e-mails start flowing.

I'm not having any problem, however.

[Sith_Apprentice]

that cannot be right. 40 blackberries in my house, you would think 1 has an issue, or someone would have reported it on DataOutages.com Where did you get this info? also welcome to the forums. a second outage in as many days would be devastating

[secretspaz]

Its an uppercase EDGE, Im also on my WiFi connection.
*shrug* it cuts out temporarily..oh well.

[NJBlackBerry]

Over 1000 in the US. BES' all over. No complaints.

[Sith_Apprentice]

hmm, no issues in DC. Let me call a buddy in LA and another in Pheonix and lets see how they are doing.

Blackberry support center doesnt have any outage reports

[audit]

Well damn, if there's another outage then post it to the list!!!

[Sith_Apprentice]

Co-Workers in the Southwest US have no had any issues, nor have any of the stores they support. Try placing a call to your carrier and see what they have to say

[secretspaz]

Originally Posted by audit

Well damn, if there's another outage then post it to the list!!!

Lets not jump to conclusions now.
Thats why I came here first, to see what was up.

it might just be a temporary outage. As it sometimes connects, sometimes doesnt.

[Sith_Apprentice]

it also could be a carrier issue. RIM support, RIM customer Serivce, and noone on DataOutages have reported anything. Try calling Tmobile. On the other hand you may be the first to report, but lets rule out Tmo first

[audit]

See the list isn't for just global or national outages, if someone is down in a certain state, country, city, carrier, then they post to see if others are having the same issue.

[JSanders]

Originally Posted by kpatyk

RIM is currently experiencing an issue that is causing approximately 50% of BlackBerry customers to be without service. This outage is affecting all carriers.

RIM is working diligently to resolve the issue, and there is no ETA for when connections will be restored at this time.

Can you cite a source of this, or is this post supposedly a bad joke?