Verizon Wireless reported interruptions in customer access to data services such as email and internet affecting service on BlackBerry devices on March 3, 2010. According to a Verizon spokesperson the outage affected users "east of the Mississippi." Verizon said that the outage occurred for four hours and was due to defective software in one of its data centers.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/verizon-outage-blackberry_n_483937.html

BlackBerry customers in North and South America experienced problems accessing email on December 22, 2009, less than a week after a more widespread outage on December 17, 2009. The more recent outage affected some internet browsing and BlackBerry messenger service as well.http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017295892 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-blackberry-outage-1222,0,7889763.story

The outage of December 17, 2009 affected users who access email through RIM's Internet email service or Verizon's Internet service. The manufacturer of BlackBerry, RIM, confirmed the outage and said that they have resolved the problem, but has not yet reported a cause for the issues. The company said that some users may still experience email issues.http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10417374-94.html http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017295892 Internet browsing, BlackBerry Messenger, voice mail and SMS should be working, according to RIM. Customers of the carriers Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are affected. Users also reported issues with slow web browsing and problems viewing attachments.http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017295892

BlackBerry outages have been reported several times in the past. The Twitterverse was swarming of reports of a BlackBerry service outage on Monday, April 13, 2009. Customers using the BlackBerry Internet Service reported problems connecting. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server, used mostly by businesses, was said to be operating as normal.