A three-day service disruption of BlackBerry services spread to North America on Wednesday, after hitting phone owners in Latin America Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

RIM advised clients of an outage in the Americas and said it was working to restore services as customers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. The issuses reported were related to email delivery and to lack of access to browsing and messaging.

Many companies, no longer seeing the need to pay to be locked into RIM's email service, have already begun allowing employees to use alternative smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone, for corporate mail.