BlackBerry Outage: Day 3

BlackBerry is fast turning into a joke. For the third day running, many users in India are unable to receive e-mail or use BlackBerry Messenger. So-called BlackBerry smartphones have turned dumber than the cheapest devices available on the market as all frustrated users can do is call or turn to SMS.

RIM in a statement said: "The messaging and browsing delays being experienced by BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina were caused by a core switch failure within RIM’s infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience and we will continue to keep you informed."

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No information was available on which specific operators were most affected. For instance, while Vodafone India BlackBerry services have been down since last evening (an horrifying 18 hours now!), in addition to the massive outage on Monday evening when services were down for nearly 7 hours, some users on other networks like Airtel report disruptions but on a smaller scale.