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BlackBerry service crash affects BBM messaging for millions

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10-10-2011 | 12:21

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BlackBerry service crash affects BBM messaging for millions

Tens of millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been unable to receive or send emails and messages through their phones, following an outage at the server systems of parent company Research In Motion (RIM) in Slough, Berkshire.

The outage, which occurred at about 11am BST on Monday, was still affecting users more than four hours later with no time given for when it was expected to be resolved.

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