Optus apologises as BlackBerry network fails

BLACKBERRY users have been without emails for most of the day due to
problems at one of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies.

"I can confirm that some Optus customers have today been experiencing
disruption to their BlackBerry data services," an Optus spokeswoman said.

"Technicians have now resolved the issue and we have been progressively
restoring customers to normal service from approximately 1pm (AEDT) this
afternoon.

"Optus apologises for any inconvenience caused to its customers by this
disruption."

It is not the first time BlackBerry users have "gone offline".

In April, millions of US subscribers were unable to get emails on their
mobile devices because of outages.

"Simon Gronow" <srg@babcom.net.au> wrote in message
news:47300516$0$81479$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
> BLACKBERRY users have been without emails for most of the day due to
> problems at one of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies.
>
> "I can confirm that some Optus customers have today been experiencing
> disruption to their BlackBerry data services," an Optus spokeswoman said.
>
> "Technicians have now resolved the issue and we have been progressively
> restoring customers to normal service from approximately 1pm (AEDT) this
> afternoon.
>
> "Optus apologises for any inconvenience caused to its customers by this
> disruption."
>
> It is not the first time BlackBerry users have "gone offline".
>
> In April, millions of US subscribers were unable to get emails on their
> mobile devices because of outages.
>

You get that, using a proprietary and totally fucked system with gigantic
dinosaur hand-sets



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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Thats what you get for putting all your eggs in one basket.

I dont know what the fascination with blackberry is correct me if im
wrong but dosent blackberry email services rely on RIMs email servers

If so why would businesses want this? it just adds another possible
point of failure.

~Dan


In article <47300516$0$81479$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
srg@babcom.net.au says...
> BLACKBERRY users have been without emails for most of the day due to
> problems at one of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies.
>
> "I can confirm that some Optus customers have today been experiencing
> disruption to their BlackBerry data services," an Optus spokeswoman said.
>
> "Technicians have now resolved the issue and we have been progressively
> restoring customers to normal service from approximately 1pm (AEDT) this
> afternoon.
>
> "Optus apologises for any inconvenience caused to its customers by this
> disruption."
>
> It is not the first time BlackBerry users have "gone offline".
>
> In April, millions of US subscribers were unable to get emails on their
> mobile devices because of outages.
>
>
>

> Thats what you get for putting all your eggs in one basket.

Yep

> I dont know what the fascination with blackberry is correct me if im
> wrong but dosent blackberry email services rely on RIMs email servers

Yep

> If so why would businesses want this? it just adds another possible
> point of failure.

No big deal