NEW YORK (AP) --A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive
BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada on Monday.
Officials with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless said BlackBerry
maker Research in Motion Ltd. told them customers of all wireless
carriers were affected.
It was not immediately clear how many of the 12 million worldwide
BlackBerry subscribers had problems, as some users reported being able
to access their service normally Monday afternoon.
But Garth Turner, a member of the Canadian Parliament, said during a
caucus meeting that the incident's impact couldn't be overestimated.
``Everyone's in crisis because they're all picking away at their
BlackBerrys and nothing's happening,'' Turner said. ``It's almost like
cutting the phone cables or a total collapse in telegraph lines a
century ago. It just isolates people in a way that's quite phenomenal.''
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