The outage, which affected devices such as tablets and smartphones, began at about 3:30 p.m.
The outage, caused when some Amazon servers used by Netflix crashed, lasted more than 20 hours.
Skype has suffered a major outage, with millions of users losing connections last night.
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In response, Balsillie said both he and Lazaridis have been focused on fixing the outage.
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All these launched in the United States on Tuesday, one day before the outage.
Most importantly, try to anticipate problems (car break down, power outage, etc.) and be prepared.
The outage outside North America may have hit up to 30-40 million BlackBerry subscribers, he estimates.
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"We sincerely apologise and regret the impact this outage had on all of you, " he said.
Last week it suffered a service outage that affected millions of subscribers worldwide for three days.
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But, eventually, he found out that there was a cell outage throughout the Bahamas.
More recently, the Amazon cloud outage and Blackberry server outage were both instigated by human error.
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It is the second major outage the cable has experienced since it went live.
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Other satellites used by The AP to deliver its services were not affected by the outage.
Many users also had wondered whether an hour-long outage Tuesday was related to the problem.
After the game, accounts varied on just how big of an impact the power outage had.
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On Monday, CBS aired video shot from inside a stadium control room as the outage occurred.
There was something so fitting about the outage an embarrassing breakdown on this, football's biggest night.
There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.
Netflix had its own embarrassing holiday outage, going offline for many players on December 24th.
Last year also saw a more series multi-day outage for some Amazon customers.
But we can measure the inverse easily, the trends in unreliability outage frequency and duration.
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The annual outage duration has also been rising, at about a 14% per year rate.
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The outage also affected a water pumping station causing problems with water supplies south west of Alton.
That was identified as a "vulnerable" variable in the project when the outage began in March 2012.
The service suffered a major outage at the end of 2010 as Skype was negotiating with Microsoft.
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Facebook suffered a temporary outage last night after a staff member accidentally leaked internal product prototypes.
Last week, the Chase online banking system was down for three days due to a service outage.
Even RIMM was able to brush off its data network outage, thanks to massive EFSF expansion hopes.
However, at the time of the reported outage, none of its users were able to get online.
City officials had worried that the outage might harm New Orleans' chances of getting another Super Bowl.
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