BlackBerry users in Europe, Africa and the Middle East can use BlackBerry Messenger, Internet and e-mail again. The fault has lasted a total of 4 days.
The cause of the problem was a faulty switch. This was already solved, but the defect caused accumulation of data that had to be be eliminated first. In only four days BlackBerry suffers a considerable reputation damage. The services of the company were considered very reliable. This image has suffered a severe setback.
These troubles don’t come a the right time for RIM, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, Sales of the company for some time have been bad for some time, and shareholders call for a split up of the software and hardware division. The Canadians also saw themeselves forced to sharply cut in the workforce.
Source: Mobileburn.com