This evening I had some family from out of town visiting. I took some pictures with my Blackberry with the intention of uploading them onto Facebook. After about 10 attempts I became frustrated. I could not understand why I could not upload even through my dad’s wifi. Here it is about four hours later and I still cannot upload or for that matter use any data on my phone. Around 11:00 PM I was reading Twitter and discovered that one of the trending topics was Blackberry. I clicked on it and found that millions of people were posting about their Blackberry service not working. These were people of differing service providers. Then I found that people were posting stories from major news outlets advising us that Blackberry service is experiencing an outage in North and South America. We can make phone calls and text messages but no data can be used. I have many applications and none of them are working.
I am actually happy the problem is on the provider’s end and not on my own. At least this gives me the confidence of knowing that it is not my equipment that is malfunctioning. I truly have been very happy with my service over time. I love being able to Twitter, Facebook, and listen to the Internet radio on my phone. I guess I can give them the benefit of the doubt and give them a second chance. 
Hopefully it will be working by the time morning arrives. If you have a Blackberry and your service is not working then you can put your mind at ease and know the problem is not on your end.
***UPDATE 12/23/2009***
It appears the service is back online this morning. I had about 20 emails, 20 text messages and a few Twitter messages all waiting on my phone this morning when I got up.