What would a North American BIS outage have to do with something happening almost half a world away?
Because it is a worldwide outage, all mail feeds through Canada and there is always the possibility.
Remember, the Internet connects the world, the Egyptians cut off the Internet and there are all sorts of inter-related things from a security perspective that could happen.
They may have done something that rebounded back to RIM's servers and RIM had to protect itself by taking it down.
My Torch 9800 OS 6.0.0.450 on TELUS e-mail is still down - but bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=telus is no longer redirecting to bis.t-mobile.com/html/index.html.
Rogers in Vancouver....email seems to be working, but really slowly. Got a flood of emails this morning from all accounts, but it's definitely not instant push this morning. Send an email to my Gmail account 5 minutes ago and still no sign of it. Even resending my service books took way longer than usual.
I just had several emails come in. I don't know if its a permanent restoration of service or if things are still sporadic like some have reported though.
11:20 central time
U.S. Cellular
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com
from South Carolina: (T-Mobile) no e-mail from about midnight Friday, Jan. 28, until about noon Saturday, Jan. 29. A batch of messages belched through about 12:15 p.m. Saturday, no transmissions since then.
