You are not on Verizon, as BGR is vaguely reporting. Even most of the users responding to the BGR report are saying "all fine here". Did you read that?
Telus might be having an outage, RIM is not, currently. You might have a localized tower issue, RIM is not.
Believe me, if RIM were having another outage just now, it would be loud.
Call your carrier and confirm where the problem lies.
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