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RIM: On iPhone 5 Day, A Perfectly Timed Service Outage

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You cannot be serious, as John McEnroe likes to say.

Research In Motion tweeted Friday that "some users in Europe, Middle East & Africa are experiencing issues with their BlackBerry service," although the outage has now apparently been fixed. The trouble came just as sales of the Apple iPhone 5 were getting underway in Europe and elsewhere.

Reuters notes that Vodafone reported that some of its clients were feeling the effects of the outage; the wire service also noted that some T-Mobile customers faced a service disruption that affected email and Internet browsing earlier this week.

RIMM in early trading is down is down 12 cents, or 1.7%, to $6.79.