BlackBerry Internet services back online
Summary: The downtime experienced by BlackBerry users since 10 October 2011 has been resolved according to Research in Motion.
BlackBerry users in South Africa reported this morning (11 October 2011) that they are no longer experiencing the connectivity problems they had yesterday.
Research in Motion have now confirmed that the issues plaguing their Internet service have been resolved.
This comes after extensive outages were reported in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region yesterday, which were later confirmed by RIM.
The problems started shortly after 09:00 GMT on 10 October 2011 and lasted for many hours. Affected subscribers could not send and receive e-mail messages, use services such as Internet browsing or instant messaging.
It was also reported that users were unable to create new accounts and that BlackBerry Enterprise Servers were also unable to connect to BlackBerry’s infrastructure.
RIM did not provide details on the nature of the outage.
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