BlackBerry services collapse again

Once again users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been affected. All three regions are served by a RIM data centre in Slough, Berkshire.

The Bahraini network Batelco confirmed the renewed problems via Twitter.

“Bahrain is experiencing service difficulties with Blackberry,” it said.

RIM is currently working on solving the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

Bob Collymore, of the Kenyan network Safaircom, said: “RIM has advised us that the BlackBerry service in EMEA is down again.

“They are working to fix it but not sure when solution will be found.”

The latest crash appeared to be the last straw for many users.

Rob Flello, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, said: “Blackberry stopped working again – looks like I will be trading it in for an iPhone!!”

RIM has also been criticised for its public response to the failures. It only acknowledged the yesterday’s crash after users had been without services for several hours and it has made no statement on the cause.