This is Not A Good Time For Outage
At the end of every quarter, there’s this magical moment: its best time. If you are working in a sales or sales support position, you are probably connected to your mobile email device working 24×7 on getting this next deal… Lots of adrenalin in the air. It’s fun time. Unfortunately, RIM’s Blackberry network is down. In other words, no-mail-for-you…
Some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are experiencing delays in message delivery,” RIM said in a statement. “Technical teams are actively working to resolve the issue for those impacted. RIM apologizes for any inconvenience experienced by customers.”
The outage is the second for RIM in that past five days. For several hours on Thursday, users were once again not able to receive or send e-mail messages. RIM did not provide any details on what caused the outages on Thursday or Tuesday night.
Googling around, you’ll find several outage reports. Few are during this time… while it’s clear that it is only a coincidence it proves again that there’s never a good time for an outage…