{"id":35736,"date":"2011-10-10T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35736"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:43:58","slug":"blackberry-internet-service-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/35736-blackberry-internet-service-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Internet Service problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> and <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> subscribers have reported <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> Internet Service (BIS) problems today (10 October 2011). Subscribers in all regions of South Africa reported connectivity problems using BIS.<\/p>\n<p>Initial indications suggest that the problem is related to a glitch on the international BlackBerry\/<a title=\"Research in Motion (RIM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">RIM<\/a> network rather than local connectivity issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph reported that millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, Asia and Africa have been left without services caused by problems at Research in Motion (RIM).<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom confirmed the reports that the problems are caused by issues on the RIM network, but could not give any further details.<\/p>\n<p>MTN also confirmed the problems, but referred all media queries to RIM.<\/p>\n<p>RIM\/BlackBerry said that they &#8220;are working to resolve an issue currently impacting some BlackBerry subscribers in Europe, Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 We&#8217;re investigating, and we apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused whilst this is resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom and MTN customers have reported BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) problems today, caused by problems on the RIM network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97,35,42,99,41],"class_list":["post-35736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-rim","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35738,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736\/revisions\/35738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}