BlackBerry service back after three-day outage

Friday 14th October 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Wave Telecom’s senior business relationship manager Jason Fitton with a selection of BlackBerry devices, which have been affected by serious problems this week. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1188726)

BLACKBERRY customers in the Bailiwick have been warned to expect further instability to their service by the company which makes the smartphone.

That alert came even though manufacturer Research In Motion announced late yesterday that the problem had been resolved.

Local users have been kept up to date by text by the telecoms companies.

Wave Telecom’s Barna Kutvolgyi said that as soon as problems began on Tuesday the company sent out texts to reassure users.

Sure has about 3,000 customers using BlackBerrys in Guernsey. Head of mobile Mike Fawkner-Corbett said it had sent regular text updates to them.

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Guernseasider

October 14, 2011 at 6:39 pm

Guernsey is so far behind the times that BOTH blackberry users have been affected by this.

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Nathan

October 15, 2011 at 9:55 am

Glad I got my ifone 4s yesterday. Was worth the wait in the crowd.

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Ray

October 15, 2011 at 10:59 am

Guernseasider

My pigeons still do a good job for me and when they do happen to make the odd mistake I get to eat them

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