RIM ( Research in Motion ) announced today that North American Blackberry customers may be experiencing delays and outages in receiving or sending emails over the network. According to them, it seems like the browsing and PIN messaging work just fine, so just the email service is affected.

Research in Motion’s technical team is now trying to fix this issue and it may not take long until the service will be running as normal. The service has been down since 3:15 a.m. and only the users with BIS ( Blackberry internet service ) individual plans are affected, while BES ( Blackberry enterprise service ) users don’t have any problems.

Blackberry Internet service subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages view email attachments, or request to see more text.

Odette Coleman, Rogers’ Director of Communications

We will let you know once we find out more information. Hopefully they will fix it soon. I am also a Blackberry BIS user and I hate to see emails aren’t sent as usual.

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