TORONTO (Reuters) - A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone from busy executives to political campaign staff on the eve of three U.S. presidential primaries.
The problem, which BlackBerry owner Research In Motion described as a "critical severity outage" affecting users in the Americas, once again raised concerns about the stability of the e-mail service 10 months after a widespread crash last April.
RIM said in a later statement that data services in the Americas experienced delays on late Monday afternoon, around 3.30 p.m. Eastern time, but were restored in the early evening at around 6.30 p.m..
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