Oh, RIM! It looked like things couldn’t get any worse, and then your messaging services go down for days. And right before the iPhone launch, too.

BlackBerry owners will already know about it, but for the rest of you, BBM (BlackBerry Messaging) went down hard on Monday morning, and is still staggering along two days later. Outages have occurred in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and spread to India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

The problem was caused by a switch failing in Slough, England. This was followed by the backup failing, too.

Read more: wired.com