Crackberry Cold Turkey As Voda Goes Dark

Written by Adam Gosling

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

NSW BlackBerry users were forced into withdrawal yesterday as a hardware upgrade in a Sydney exchange put a stop to one of Vodafone's email traffic in NSW. According to this report in by The Australian, the installation of a new hardware switch at Vodafone's Newington exchange proved to be incompatible and halted data traffic for GPRS users between 6:30am and 11:30am yesterday. Although the Crackberry drought was restricted to NSW customers o=users in other states trying to send email into NSW would also have been affected by the blackout. The GPRS failure mainly affected mobile email users, said the company claiming voice and 3G data traffic was affected. Though Vodafone supports both BlackBerry and Windows Mobile email services, it is understood BlackBerry users were the most affected. Despite having a back-up system in place, there was not enough capacity to remedy the problem a company spokesperson said. The company was unwilling to say how many email users it has in NSW. Related news items Grinspoon Tonight Live On Vodafone -25/09/2007 What Colour Is Your Phone -27/08/2007 Voda Goes In-Store At Myer -26/08/2007 MOTO Q 9h In Australia On Vodafone -16/07/2007 Vodafone Puts Rugby On Your Mobile -25/06/2007 Newer news items Battery Problems Spread To Phones -14/08/2007 First iPhone Flaw Found -23/07/2007 No safety Risk From MacBook Batteries: Apple -29/04/2007 Acer Kept Selling Dodgy Batteries -26/04/2007 Security Video Live To Your Mobile -04/04/2007 Older news items ACCC Warns On Phone Scams -13/03/2007 ASI Whitebook Gets Seagate Encrypted Drive -13/03/2007 Lenovo Recalls More Batteries -01/03/2007 Cisco Beefs Up Wireless LAN Security -18/02/2007 Exploding Laptop Video -13/11/2006 Tag This Now: