from Hacker News

Blackberry services down in Europe, Middle East and Africa

by qxb on 10/10/11, 3:25 PM with 11 comments

  • by savramescu on 10/10/11, 5:14 PM

    I'm the only one seeing this as the announcement of RIMs downfall? One of the things that really held BBs still going was that it's in almost all corporate environments. But I think a lot of users will jump ship after this. At this point RIM is in serious problems.
  • by dave1010uk on 10/10/11, 5:14 PM

    The article makes it sound like BlackBerry proxy all EMEA network traffic through their UK servers. Does anyone know if this is correct? If so, I wonder how easily the UK government could get their hands on it.
  • by asto on 10/10/11, 4:59 PM

    Having all communication in a region pass through a single third party server is such a big design flaw! If only other companies made decent qwerty keyed phones, picking a successor to my Blackberry wouldn't be so hard.
  • by simondlr on 10/10/11, 5:17 PM

    Your phone... is now... a phone!