Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?
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The release of the T-Mobile Bold 9700 obviously couldn't have caused such a problem with the network and we haven't seen anything official from RIM yet. This type of service outage is one reason I will never go back to using a BlackBerry device. I prefer to have more control over my connectivity and information and think these types of data outages are unacceptable today.