BlackBerry Service Outages Spread to North America

Problems have plagued overseas users since Monday

Much to the chagrin of U.S. BlackBerry subscribers, the service disruptions that have plagued overseas users have spread to North America. Since Monday, BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India have all reported glitches. Browsing capabilities and the BlackBerry Messenger app have been all but useless, while email service has been spotty.

On a special website set up to address the outages, RIM explained yesterday that the messaging and browsing delays overseas were caused by a core switch failure within the company’s infrastructure.

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