BlackBerry service down in Europe, Mideast, Africa
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In a Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, Tim Neil, Research In Motion (RIM)'s Canadian Operating Director of Operations, Platforms and Tools, speaks about the Blackberry 10 architecture during the RIM Blackberry 10 Jam World Tour in Toronto. Struggling BlackBerry-maker RIM said on Friday it resolved an outage affecting users in Europe, Middle East and Africa that had interrupted service for customers on the very day Apple unveiled its new iPhone 5. -- PHOTO: AP
TORONTO (AP) - Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) said on Friday it resolved an outage affecting users in Europe, Middle East and Africa that had interrupted service for customers on the very day Apple unveiled its new iPhone 5.
BlackBerry announced the issues in postings on Facebook and Twitter on Friday, and said it fixed the troubles after a few hours. It apologised to customers for the inconvenience caused.
The outage brought up unpleasant memories of last year's troubles with emails and chat messages that left many users bereft for up to three days.
The timing could not have been worse, coming as lines formed outside of Apple stores in a number of cities as the new iPhone 5 went on sale.
