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*UPDATE* - And now, service looks to of have been restored after 2 hours. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Looks as though BlackBerry Messenger services in the EMEA region are not running tip top at the moment. Many folks are now reporting slow message delivery or failure of messages being sent and recieved altogether. Still no official word from RIM as of yet but we'll be keeping an eye on the situation.
As of now, it doesn't appear to be affecting North American users but there is always the chance it could move across the network as we know from past events. Sound off if you're having any issues currently. In other news, Amazon Web Services are down as well as data centers throughout the EMEA due to storms so that leaves us to wonder if this is somehow related to those.
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KelownaAlex Jun 30, 2012 at 11:50 am
great! this won't give the media anything to shine more excellent light on.
all is well out here in British Columbia with BBM services.
joobster64 Jun 30, 2012 at 12:40 pm
not working here in Langley BC.....geeking out....very frustrating.....any hints to when it will be fixed???.....people wonder why people are going to iphones in droves
BBNation Jul 1, 2012 at 2:12 am
Hello..I am all good..Surrey BC here..hey Langley boy or girl..
sk8er_tor Jul 1, 2012 at 12:00 pm
I'm not picking on you but iMessage on iPhone is not perfect either. Problems are also encountered on that service but people dismiss it and think Apple is perfect and never has any problems. Just go on iMore or do a Google search and you'll see for yourself. Furthermore, if you have a problem with BBM, you can always send a text, just like on iPhone when iMessage fails. Not sure why some people think that if there's any service outage (which I did not encounter in Toronto BTW), your entire BlackBerry becomes unusable and want to switch. Can you imagine if RIM manufactured a phone that would lose reception if you held it in a particular way? We all know how they were slaughtered for the power button on the PlayBook. I guess picking on RIM is just in style these days.
Blackberry_boffin Jun 30, 2012 at 1:00 pm
My thoughts exactly.
Ouch.
I mean OUCH!
juanchy Jun 30, 2012 at 1:12 pm
It makes it very hard to defend the indefensible. We are all trying to defend RIM but they make so hard or impossible on the users to do. They better sell, break up or merge with another company in a hurry. My first BB was the 7290 and I am a big fan of BB but I am about to throw the towel. No mas!
w_antoun Jun 30, 2012 at 11:51 am
I'm in Lebanon, and it's been messed up for the past week really. My service provider said they were doing some maintenance on their side :/ I don't even get emails nor can I add new ones :|
I hope they fix it soon, RIM rly doesn't need this right now!
GreenCopperz Jun 30, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Seems like your region gets hit a lot lately... Sorry to hear that...Not good since support for rim/bb in your region is very high... Enough of these incidents would certainly change everyone's opinions...
sk8er_tor Jul 1, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Like the guy said, his service provider might be at fault. Let's not be quick at blaming RIM.
Cula Jun 30, 2012 at 11:52 am
Working just fine here in Germany
smartferret Jun 30, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Working fine England
playpen007 Jun 30, 2012 at 12:06 pm
When it rain it pour...
j.nightingale Jun 30, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Germany - Had some minor issues earlier for a while but it seems to work fine now!
enricopoli Jun 30, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Working fine here in Florence, Granducato di Toscana.
yanicmb Jun 30, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Service has always been like that here in Jamaica but hey we are a third world country after all
Don_Vado Jul 1, 2012 at 8:09 am
So its acceptable?
Much that we go through here in Jamaica RE messed up blackberry service is not because of RIM but its because of our service providers. Not saying that RIM don't have problems from time to time but most of the times its our SP that have the issue.
#DV
Gnome Jun 30, 2012 at 12:11 pm
BBM is not working fine for me in England. Long delays in message delivery. So far all messages have eventually got through but it can take hours!
Robert22 Jun 30, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Czech Republic has got problems. Some messages goes through some not, but I dont get any confirmation of delivering the message etc.
chiripio Jun 30, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Past 2 days at night has been slow in El Salv ador Central America.
Joe.S Jun 30, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Still down here on Vodafone UK.... only getting the handset host registered message and nothing else.
Let's hope this is not days like last time.
jijikat Jun 30, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I'm in Africa and all his fine.
there was a problem like this one week ago during two days and it was a carrier maintenance and not a RIM problem.
davidwipf Jun 30, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Data was down in manitoba on MTS from Noon yesterday till this morning. 9900 BB
BBThemes Jun 30, 2012 at 12:26 pm
am in UK, havent had one issue, been chatting with people from spain, greece, uk, usa, canada and even thailand on BBM today.
i love the irony of discussing with people on BBM if they are having issues lmao
SamWilli Jun 30, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Seems like really slow delivery here in South Africa. Heard that Netflix and Instagram are also having/had issues.
kreontas Jun 30, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Down here in Ireland for most users
omekaac Jun 30, 2012 at 12:35 pm
BBM working great here in Nigeria, West Africa.
BerryRipe Jun 30, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Working for me here in Texas and for a friend of mine down in Floria.
nelsonpml Jun 30, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Never had a problem here in Ontario.
_Zodiac_ Jun 30, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Im in South Africa and the service is problematic here at the moment.
xtremez Jun 30, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Working fine in Malaysia!
kthhrrsn Jun 30, 2012 at 12:50 pm
No problem at all in Chicago- USA
disk0 Jun 30, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada never had any issues
FR33MAN Jun 30, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Some slowness at the beginning of the afternoon but working well after 1-2 hours here in Switzerland.
"I'm not the man with an "S" on his chest,
I'm just the man who represent the West"
Matt J Jun 30, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Seem to be fine in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ertank Jun 30, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Quite big issue here. Affecting applications, too.
Zipper Jun 30, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Not working at all on both my enterprise berry and my personal, I'm in Vancouver BC.
*update* now it's working extremely slow. Takes over 5min to send a BBM. I can receive instantly. Wtf?
No0no0 Jun 30, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Most of the users here in Bahrain have been having difficulty connecting with BBM for the past 5 hours.. Hope this gets fixed soon, it's very frustrating
cadoll Jun 30, 2012 at 1:11 pm
My service is working fine, but I'm slow.... Oh, and I'm in California... (It's to sunny to look at or respond to any messages. I just want to relax....)
daveshiz Jun 30, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Hunky dory in bonnie scotland !!
mikepraba Jun 30, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Another reason for bloodshed on monday stock market
lnichols Jun 30, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Just when you think it can't get any worse, RIM finds a way!
juanchy Jun 30, 2012 at 1:28 pm
At least they are good at something and showing consistency. :)
pythons Jun 30, 2012 at 1:30 pm
If I had any friends or family left on BlackBerry I would be able to test how the Seattle area is working but alas they have all gone to other devices.
kiusak Jun 30, 2012 at 1:34 pm
En España ha dejado de funcionar durante unas horas, pero ahora parece volver a la normalidad
TheStoof Jun 30, 2012 at 1:38 pm
It's time that BBM is put on iOS/Android.
nano404 Jun 30, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I'm North UK. Messages were slightly delayed by a few seconds to some people but OK otherwise.
klkd Jun 30, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Rimm could write a book on how to destroy a thriving multi-billion dollar company. The EMEA region is one of the last places where blackberrys are actually more popular than samsung and iphone and your gonna mess your last great market up with outages. Unacceptable. I would test the bbm service in vancouver but i only have 8 contacts left out of 100 who are still active. Another reason for me to get rid of my berry.
DrBit2011 Jun 30, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Works great in Mexico DF, no delay
Live Long and Prosper!
LuisCast Jun 30, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Has been working flawlessly for me here in Miami, Florida (maybe because we are also often labeled as a Third World Country Capital, he-he) and I have been chatting with China all morning without any troubles.
Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes Jun 30, 2012 at 2:27 pm
WATERLOO checking in with no problems to report
ssbtech Jun 30, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I'ts not like Apple hasn't ever had their data services go wonky. When you have 78 million users of the service, something is bound to happen.
randall2580 Jun 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm
There was a severe storm in Virginia today knocked out some major servers including Amazon's, Netflix, Pinterest. It's possible it affected RIM as well? This one might just be an act of God.
boldkeyboardholic Jun 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm
You mean the Thunderer?
Can't be, Thor works for RIM
xD
SherryBerri Jun 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Hi! I'm in Pretoria, south Africa and the bbm was down, really frustrating, with the little white clock and red hands.. Was down for a few hours, but it appears to be back up again now, but that was around 15h00 this afternoon, it came on about 8PM tonight
homieomt Jun 30, 2012 at 3:12 pm
UAE - BBM and other social networks havent been working on my BB since the start of this day
Superfly_FR Jun 30, 2012 at 3:16 pm
France Vodafone SFR. Didn't noticed any major problem (had a limited use today) . Had my goups update and a few BBM w/ my daughter in Corsica (same operator). No PB with my office365 Exchange BB Enterprise services either.
solo_diver Jun 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm
No issue here Ontario, Canada!
boldkeyboardholic Jun 30, 2012 at 3:50 pm
didin't have any issues - but I don't use BBM, as I only have three BBM contacts left, and these are from work.
Sadly...
SherryBerri Jun 30, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Sounds like you need a bbm friend or two
Zipper Jun 30, 2012 at 3:52 pm
All is back to normal now for me. Vancouver BC. :).
icemanswimmer Jun 30, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Nothing happened here in Mexico
Cheers!
mikepraba Jun 30, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Hey Muchchacho! How could you say Nothing Happened in Mexicoc? All the actions are there......
qbnkelt Jun 30, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Working fine here in the Mid Atlantic. Epic storm last night and no problems. Lost power, popped in fresh battery and still in touch with loved ones....BBM going strong while we were huddled in the basement.
BruvvaPete Jun 30, 2012 at 4:56 pm
I'm on the moon. All is well
presemu Jun 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Mine has been misbehaving for the past two days. Today was worse though but seems like it's now back to normal. Here in Malawi, Africa.
Cesare21 Jun 30, 2012 at 5:30 pm
India (RIM's new emerging market) - troublesome... can't see DPs or see old ones... slow delivery... Just to confirm, RIM is NOT a government agency is it?
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johnizomi Jun 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Reporting ,, here in Indonesia I don't feel any trouble. As a normal user worldwide we shall have alternative/back up. I employ android phone and use two provider. But, BB is my lethal weapon.
Ioannes Jun 30, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I'm always the last one to find out these things, so I'm pretty sure nobody else wondered. But just in case somebody else didn't know either, here's what Wikipedia says:
"Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American companies."
As for me, here in southern California BBM has been cooking along as it's supposed to.
Cheers.
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mbilloo Jun 30, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Been slow for a while now, but yes it was down today (from Pakistan) for about 2 hrs., recovered but quiet slow, in downtime, even browsing etc. wasn't working!!
jlbenc Jun 30, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Reporting from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
I saw sporadic slowness yesterday, but since this afternoon my outgoing BBM msgs took about 20 to get thru. The weird thing is that the wife's BB and other friends' are OK. I seem to be the only one I know of who's affected.
Anyway, email is taking 90+ minutes to reach my device. BBM seems better now.
Hope they fix this soon.
Jose L Bencosme
jlbenc Jun 30, 2012 at 11:05 pm
UPDATE: Sending a test EMAIL from wife's Curve took 5+ minutes to change from Sending ))) to Sent (check)
:$
markproper Jun 30, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Not much to report here from Guelph, Ontario Canada. Seems to be running fine.....
Oh wait, that's right..... As of yesterday I'm not going down with the ship, I got a Samsung Galaxy S3.
anton-k Jun 30, 2012 at 11:28 pm
BC, Canada... emails seem to be taking forever to get to my BB, to various email accounts (gmail and others). One was half an hour late, another one that I received on the computer 15 mins ago still hasn't shown up on the BB...
giorgoskyropoulos Jul 1, 2012 at 1:52 am
Many problems in Greece with my device. No BBM yesterday and still no mails two days now. My provider (vodafone) said is a rim problem not from provider. I can't access blackberry protect from device and the same with mail setup from device.
BB9900, PB32GB
moodygd Jul 1, 2012 at 5:48 am
working fine in France !
Bear7079 Jul 1, 2012 at 8:31 am
Had an issue with getting emails last night through BIS. went to check email settings and was unable to access BIS setup through phone.
everything is fine this morning. emails are moving and access to the site was restored.
US, Boston,MA BB9850.
Poodwahr Jul 1, 2012 at 10:40 am
No email for hours last night (through BIS). What else will RIM screw up while they reorganize themselves.
biohazard79 Jul 3, 2012 at 3:59 am
it wasn't quite RIM's fault, even Foursquare and other companies got the issue...
it's about that one second added this weekend to allign the atomic clocks that messed up IT systems