BlackBerry outage in the UAE last night was down to a faulty cable
BlackBerry users in the UAE experienced a service outage last night lasting several hours.
The disruption was confirmed by Etisalat, via Twitter, in response to queries made by disgruntled customers.
“Dear customers, kindly note there’s a BB service outage,” the note said. “Please bear with us, our team is working on solving it. Thanks for your patience.”
The outage frustrated those who rely on BlackBerry’s, said Fatima, a 19-year-old from Sharjah.
“It is really, really annoying because whenever we call the centre they say it will be back in half an hour and then when we call them back, they tell us the same thing.
“I would rather they be honest and say it’s going to take a long time.”
A spokesperson for Research in Motion said the disruption was caused by a faulty cable but was fixed yesterday evening.
