BlackBerry users have been hit by a major outage reportedly affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) across parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe, including the UK.
The extent of the problem isn’t yet clear, but countless SA BlackBerry users began reporting problems early on Monday afternoon through social media services such as Twitter and Facebook.
Some SA users of the service as far flung as Abu Dhabi have reported problems accessing the service.
Some reports suggest the problem extends all the way to Europe and Asia, and that the service outage may last until Monday evening SA time. However, TechCentral has not yet been able to obtain comment from local representatives of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
Update: Statement from Research in Motion: “We are working to resolve an issue currently impacting some BlackBerry subscribers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. We’re investigating, and we apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused while this is resolved.”
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