BlackBerry subscribers experienced a service outage today for the second time in a week. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has seen a rapid increase in the number of subscribers over the last year, with the current total currently over three million.
In explaining the outage, a RIM spokesperson noted that the backup system was not sufficient:
"There was a hardware failure this afternoon and the backup system functioned with lower capacity than expected."
The company claims today's outage is not related to the one on Friday.