An outage affecting BlackBerry users in Europe and around the world continued for a second day Tuesday, RIM acknowledged this morning.
"Some areas have messaging delays and impaired browsing. We're working to restore normal service as quickly as possible," RIM tweeted about an hour ago.
Those areas include Europe, the Middle East and Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.
Reports of a BlackBerry outage in the regions first hit yesterday evening, which RIM acknowledged on Twitter; "Some users in EMEA are experiencing issues," they said at the time. Later that night, RIM said email services had been restored, but some browsing and IM delays remained.
Those delays are apparently still ongoing. RIM did not elaborate on what was causing the problems.
Carriers overseas confirmed the delays. T-Mobile's U.K. site said in a recent update that "Over the past 24 hours, BlackBerry products have experienced a number of problems with email, internet and messaging services. This is due to a European-wide outage on the BlackBerry network run by BlackBerry's manufacturer RIM, which is affecting all mobile operators."
Bahrain's Batelco also said it was having problems and was "working with RIM to restore normal service."
The outage comes amidst reports that RIM might be for sale. The New York Times reports that Canada-based Jaguar Financial Corporation, which has been pushing for a RIM sale, said it has support from shareholders who own 8 percent of RIM's shares.