Any BlackBerry users?

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » June 20th, 2008, 3:41 am

Just recieved this at work. Looks like maintenance is planned for this weekend.

The BlackBerry network provider, Research In Motion (RIM), has planned a maintenance outage scheduled for June 21 and 22, when they will interrupt BlackBerry service in order to perform upgrades to components of the Blackberry Network infrastructure.

All BlackBerry users located in North America will experience the BlackBerry outage on Saturday, June 21, from 2:00 – 6:00 a.m. EDT (06:00:00-10:00:00 GMT).

All BlackBerry users located in Asia, the Pacific and Europe will experience the BlackBerry outage on Sunday, June 22, from 2:00 a.m. – 6:00 am. EDT (06:00:00-10:00:00 GMT).

During these maintenance periods, BlackBerry subscribers will not have service, and therefore will be unable to send or receive messages, register their device, roam to other locations, or use other services such as Internet browsing. All BlackBerry service should be restored following these listed maintenance periods.

panhandler · Postby **panhandler** » June 20th, 2008, 5:26 am

Thanks for the info.

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » June 20th, 2008, 5:33 am

Thanks for the info!

Postby **Jeremy Gault** » June 20th, 2008, 10:27 am

Seems like they have been doing this a lot lately. Probably upgrades.

I haven't noticed any of the maintenance affect me -- probably because I am asleep during the time period (which is probably the goal.) Also, I'm pretty sure one could still make/receive calls, and send/receive SMS and MMS messages, since those are just dependent on the network provider, and not the BlackBerry servers (or shouldn't be, anyway.) Anything a plain phoen should do, I would think should continue to work.

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » June 20th, 2008, 12:06 pm

I don't know about you guys, but I have had tons of service issues today. Im hoping that after the maintenance it will improve.

Postby **Jeremy Gault** » June 23rd, 2008, 4:52 pm

HogWild wrote:I don't know about you guys, but I have had tons of service issues today. Im hoping that after the maintenance it will improve.

I haven't noticed any real issues with mine. Didn't even notice the maintenance.

The only problem I really have with mine is that, in some cases, it seems to lose EVDO signal. Like, sitting in my living room in the easy chair, reading Jude 2 and chatting on IM, I just randomly lose EVDO. I *think* there is a cell site nearby, so it shouldn't be an issue.

However, unlike any of the phones I have had previously, this one does NOT have an antenna visible on it. It may just be a matter of that, coupled with the fact of how I am holding it (or the particular spot I'm in in the house.) No idea.

But, other than that, no real issues so far.

Jude 2