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BlackBerry services now ‘operating well’ around the world

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Nilay Patel
is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.

Well that was fast: RIM says that BlackBerry services around the world are now "operating well," just a few hours after RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis posted a video apologizing for prolonged outages this week and saying that he couldn't provide a definitive timeline on a fix. That's great news, but it sounds like it'll take some time for things to fully settle down: RIM says customers in Canada and Latin America will have a few lingering issues sending international messages, and we're still hearing intermittent reports of issues in the US — let us know how things are going in the comments.

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