Inefficiency and angry users. Down the BlackBerry Internet service in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. No email

Disservice is an understatement to call it, because it is one of the largest blackouts and long history of RIM, the Canadian company that produces devices BlackBerry beloved by the public enterprise.

All subscribers to the service BIS, BlackBerry Internet Service, are experiencing difficult days since the service of RIM that moves the mail system and internet smartphone went down for days. The fault, it is because of technical failure, has affected Africa, Europe and the Middle East and is started during the morning of last Monday to continue until yesterday evening. After users are also Americans, from the States to Canada to Latin America have started to have problems.


Not only mail, therefore, that have accumulated large causing delays and inconvenience, but also Internet and the use of all applications that use the BIS connectivity were blocked and / or slow down. The problem seems to come back for now, at least as reads from the page set up at the emergency manager who has forced the CIO Robin Bienfait to issue a public apology and explanation.

The technical reason for the blackout seems caused by a failure of systems connected to the backup server. This has created a bottleneck of information such as email and instant messages ( BBM ). Difficult to estimate the damage that millions of professionals (there are a total of 70 million subscribers in the world of BIS) have been subjected to the only non-receipt of mail. For moments like this, critical, we at Mobileblog we suggest using third-party programs like LogicMail (for mail) and Opera Mini , for example, both operating without BIS connectivity.