Sale Now Over: Global BlackBerry Services have been Restored

Don't you just hate it when your email and BBMs quit coming in? We do too. So to make the time pass a little more quickly until things are running 100% again, we're having an impromptu sale on all BlackBerry Accessories!

Just use coupon code noservice at checkout when purchasing accessories from ShopCrackBerry.com or our CrackBerry Canada store and you'll save yourself 10%. Sale ends once BlackBerry service is restored and working properly, so hurry!

Take advantage of the BlackBerry service outage savings while they last!
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As expected, Research In Motion has been sending out scheduled maintenance notifications to admins and carriers as they prepare to roll BIS 3.0 to North American users (view BIS 3.0 feature doc). Dates and timeframes are as follows, so you can all prepare for the inevitable loss of data connections:

• There will be scheduled network maintenance by Research In Motion (RIM) affecting BIS customers between 0100 CT / 0200 EDT on March 28th and 0500 CT / 0600 EDT on March 28th.
• Blackberry will be performing a BlackBerry Internet Service v2.8 upgrade to BlackBerry Internet Service v3.0
• BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages using their BlackBerry hosted email account or integrated third-party email accounts, view email attachments, activate email service, or request to see ""more"" text during the maintenance.
• Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to create subscriber accounts or provision services for subscribers.
• The estimated duration of impact is 4 hours and affects 100% of BIS customers. 

Even with 100% of all BIS customers without data, the real overall impact shouldn't be that bad. Considering most normal people sleep during the timeframe anyways. If all goes well, when ya get up we should have some BIS 3.0 action going on. Thanks to all those who sent this in.

*UPDATE*- Things seem to have been restored back to working order*

Reports are rolling in, the forums are filling up and yes, we appear to have another data outage on our hands. While all confirmations have been vocal from customer care reps Rogers and T-Mobile have stated that RIM is having an issue at the moment with no current ETA for a fix. Last outage was attributed to BBM and all users were advised to upgrade to the newest BlackBerry messenger. This time, we don't know as of yet but one thing is for sure, it's getting kind of old. Let us know in the comments folks if you are having some issues and sit tight, while we wait this one out.

As we've been advised by Audit over at Dataoutages, Rogers and RIM have planned some downtime for their BlackBerry users on BIS and BES systems on January 17th. The window of downtime is not really that bad, depending on what type of hours you sleep. Start Time: 02:00 AM (EDT) End Time: 06:00 AM (EDT) with the outage being that of a National one for Rogers Wireless customers.

"Work Summary: Rogers customer with Blackberry devices may be unable to send or receive messages during the maintenance. They may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing. At the same time, BlackBerry Enterprise Servers may be unable to connect to the BlackBerry Infrastructure during this maintenance."

All in all, not that bad of an outage. Oddly enough, planned outages seem  to be more tolerated or accepted then a flat out blindsided one. That's how I feel anyways, what about you all..tolerated, accepted or still a major bummer?