Alltel Blackberry Network Goes Down

February 4, 2009

Officials with Alltel say that portions of their Blackberry network in the Southeast were down again Wednesday.

Alltel experienced a Blackberry network outage over the weekend, and continued message delivery delay problems Monday and Tuesday. Blackberry users in the Southeast, including locally in North Escambia and South Alabama, begain to experience network problems about 9:30 Wednesday morning.

Many users had their Blackberry service restored about 3:30 Wednesday afternoon.

Most Blackberry users were unable to access the Internet, send or receive Blackberry or other non-SMS (txt message) email, or send or  receive Blackberry phone-to-phone PIN messages.

SMS (texting) and voice calls continued to work as they do not depend on the Blackberry network.

Phones other than the Blackberrys did not experience issues, Alltel says.

Comments

3 Responses to “Alltel Blackberry Network Goes Down”

  1. Russ on February 6th, 2009 4:56 pm

    That’s pretty silly for you to assume that because PIN-to-PIN was down it made it RIM’s fault.

    SENDER >> ALLTEL >> RIM >> ALLTEL >> RECIPIENT

    If alltel goes down, then messages aren’t delivered from RIM. The link from Alltel to RIM was degraded or down. Pin-to-Pin worked fine for all other carriers.

  2. Jay on February 4th, 2009 12:18 pm

    If they couldn’t do PIN messaging then that means the RIM network was down, not the Alltel network.

  3. Alan on February 4th, 2009 11:13 am

    My iPhone is looking better every day…LOL!!

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