BlackBerry Alert: BlackBerry Internet Service Down!
By Bla1ze | 16 Nov 2009 23:05 | 182 comments

BIS Outage!

Reports are flowing in, users are frantic. Yes, BlackBerry Internet Service is unexpectedly down across the board. What was initially thought as just as a North American outage has proven to be more widespread. Hang tight folks, we'll let ya know more when we know more. Until then, check out the CrackBerry forums and seek counsel from your peers if this is your first BIS outage. ;)

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By: bigtime2 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:09

TMobile seems to be back up now. I just started receiving emails that were sent out earlier tonight.

By: ChiWo | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:11

I'm on Sprint and it has been working just fine all day..

By: grimmstaBB | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:11

Holy tits McGee!

Wait a second I've been gettin muh emails all day, no delay. No problem with Verizon in the ol' glove state

By: doowopmario | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 00:18

"Holy tits McGee" LOL!!!

By: xlikewolvesx | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 08:55

haha.

I have t-mobile, and it seemed to be fine in MI.

By: proactix | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:11

strange to hear this...am not having any problems here in cali...am tethered to my laptop, and it seems about the same...

timothy

By: alextsou | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:13

Fido is in-and-out..

By: mikeo007 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:13

Mine's dead on Rogers right now.

By: gbeebe | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:14

I was worried I was the only one... It's been sketchy all day for me!

Browser was on and off and then Facebook was having connection issues.

Godspeed BIS. Lol.

By: rickbubello | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:15

yah it seems to be down in ny big time, but atleast we have this site :)

By: brianklewis1 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:16

Email works fine but I can't connect to the internet. I guess Verizon is unaware that its all blackberry's. They said their technicians are working on it.

By: brianklewis1 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:18

Weird thing is AIM is still working?!?!

By: bluedimness | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:16

It looks like Telus is affected by this too.

By: breakred1 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:17

I'm on Verizon browser has been VERY SLOW all evening.

By: rock54 | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 00:28

Mine too. It works, but very slowly. Edit: 12:24 AM, working fine. Yessssssss!

By: nodrogkam | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:17

Mine went out for maybe an hour or so...back up now on sprint with no problems. Figured it was some sort of data outage. I still received my e-mails and texts and could make calls.

By: dale.elder | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:17

I was getting emails all day but I could not browse the web. Its back up now.

By: USSZulu | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:18

I have not had any issues with BIS, including Email, Browsing, or BBM, soooo...yeah. :)

By: bonocchio06 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:19

Been having connection issues here in the great Northwest all day, and we're on Big Red (Verizon). Thought it was just me as well. Thank goodness...I started hyperventilating when Crackberry and Crackberry Store App started acting up on me.

By: Kirblar | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:19

i was gettin mad at my phone. started to flame it, calling it a POS and such. then i got on crackberry, and woot. i was about to do stuff to it and force verizon to give me a free s2. ftw :D

By: C4RL0S | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:20

Everything has been fine with my BB on Telus' data network in Windsor Ontario Canada.

By: Donnje | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:22

I'm on at&t and mine has been running really slow! :-( it web wasn't working a little while ago, but now its working.

By: mualam | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:22

I havent noticed any issues all day, in New York City on my 9000.

By: Stormmynewphone | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:22

Im fine here. No problems.....

when do we find out the winners for the contest from last week?!?! lol

By: Kevin Michaluk | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:22

I had some web browser issues earlier on Rogers, but everything seems good in the hood for the past while.

By: synwars | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 02:02

About the same for me on Rogers. Couldn't render a page even if my BB thumbs lives depended on it. Push email was sketchy, BBM's were way late.

By: wojotiger | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:23

Mines been in and out the past hour, tried loading this page for 10 minutes

By: elchavo117 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:30

Mine was giving me problems all day good to know it wasn't just mine. Yet I've been tethering and it's been working good

By: BuddaBelly | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:24

T-mobile been down for me a solid 3 hours.

By: calvinc | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:24

I am in Toronto with Rogers. Internet is not working.

By: ThisCantBeLegal | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:24

My Telus Tour is receiving email just fine. Doesn't seem to be an issue for me. I'm just north of Toronto

By: jefbel | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:25

Haven't noticed any probs with Verizon in TN

By: BeeRad | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:26

SMS is fine, couple emails, but things like Facebook and Weatherbug are just fail right now. No browser.

BeeRad

By: alextsou | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:26

sometimes when I do a battery pull... it works for a while... then it stopped working again...!!!

By: alextsou | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:26

sometimes when I do a battery pull... it works for a while... then it stopped working again...!!!

By: tatcape | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:27

Major issues with my BB browser....telus BB support has no idea what is going on....Interesting point is i have been having probs for about 5 days,but worst today, all day

By: gbeebe | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:27

Anyone else do numerous battery pulls today? Ah the simple fix for a short time... Lol

By: dylan_tittel | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:28

Im on a rogers bold 9000 in toronto and its all good on my end right now. Facebook, emails and BBM are still working at normal speeds

By: Kcy101 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:28

That Goodness for UMA :)

By: phoneboy101 | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 00:36

I love UMA too, but in this situation it doesn't help. It just connects us to the same "down" server via a different means.

By: Tripp | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:29

Por quuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?!?!

By: snowwy66 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:29

facebook been my problem in utah for about a week now. but looks like internet isn't working either now.

By: SamiC | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:32

My internet has been fine all day but I haven't been able to view any websites. I can't even get my Facebook messages from the app. I'm on T-Mobile.

By: DUKDIKz | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:32

ma is down for soo long,,, - -*

By: jf101 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:32

No dice here in Brew-town (Milwaukee, WI).
Can we get reimbursed for this inconvenience?!

By: glendsouza | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:32

Back here in Kuwait.. There isnt any problems at all. Been receiving emails as usual :)

By: BIG DAWG 60 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:32

Out in Cali

By: muneton17 | Date: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 01:09

speak for yourself I'm in cali in its running fine on my storm

By: idoacctg | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:33

I just got off horn with AT&T and rep felt my BB Bold was bad and is sending me a replacement in morning. I'm still under warranty .....

Not sure if I should tell them to keep the replacement or accept and send my current one back. I'll make decision in the morning I guess.

By: BigJav209 | Date: Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:33

the internet has been my problem

 
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