BlackBerry users across the Middle East, Europe and Africa experienced data disruptions on Friday in a service outage that Research In Motion Ltd. said was caused by Vodafone Group PLC’s network, not RIM’s own servers.
The outage, one of several that has affected BlackBerry users over the past two years, did nothing to dampen investor enthusiasm: On Friday, RIM’s stock soared by nearly 13 per cent, perhaps on hope Nokia Corp.’s positive sales numbers earlier this week could have implications for RIM’s chances with its own upcoming BlackBerry 10 phones.More Related to this Story
Early glimpses of the touchscreen device, combined with numerous analyst upgrades and downgrades, have caused RIM shares to yo-yo over the past several months.
In a statement about the outage on Friday, Vodafone blamed the problem on a router problem in its network. “We apologize to customers for any inconvenience caused,” the company said. A spokesman later said in an e-mail that Vodafone had “resolved the issue and services are returning to normal.”
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