There was tweeted nonsense over the weekend indicating that BIS 3.0 was hitting us overnight in the US.  Fail.  So any way, to clear out any confusing thoughts some of you may have had about this, the official date is March 28, 2010.  The official document from RIM reads:

• There will be scheduled network maintenance by Research In Motion (RIM) affecting BIS customers between 0100 CT / 0200 EDT on March 28th and 0500 CT / 0600 EDT on March 28th.
• Blackberry will be performing a BlackBerry Internet Service v2.8 upgrade to BlackBerry Internet Service v3.0
• BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages using their BlackBerry hosted email account or integrated third-party email accounts, view email attachments, activate email service, or request to see “”more”” text during the maintenance.
• Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to create subscriber accounts or provision services for subscribers.
• The estimated duration of impact is 4 hours and affects 100% of BIS customers.

Many are concerned as to whether or not two way Gmail sync will be included in this update, but it looks like it is based on all the tips and hints floating around about it.

-by Mac Jadalhack

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