RIM Faces Lawsuit Over BlackBerry Outage ⇥

The Globe and Mail:

Based on his data plan, which costs $25 a month, the lawsuit claims he is individually owed $1.25 for the one-and-a-half days he did not have service. Potentially hundreds of thousands of others are owed similar amounts across Canada, the lawsuit claims.

On the one hand, suing for $1.25 apiece in a potential class lawsuit seems frivolous. On the other, there’s no way he could ask for more unless he could prove the outage caused a loss of a certain monetary amount.

At this point, a keen observer would note that routing all cellular services through a third party has significant downsides.