I am finding that, quite regularly, my Black Berry loses the BB 'footprint' which appears alongside the 3G symbol and accordingly does not receive any messages until I notice it and cancel all connections and reset them.

This always happens at Central Festival and has now started randomly in Patong.

Is anyone else experiencing this and/or have any suggestions?

thanks

At last I can confirm that you are not the only one. A friend of mine came from Bangkok to work in Patong for about half a year and he always had problems like that with his Blackberry. He had to reboot several times a day, which is a nightmare on that phone (takes forever). Now, back in Bangkok, the problem is (almost) gone.

Sorry but blackberry is crap.

I used to use the 9700 and it was a piece of shit, freezing all the time and lack of signal.

Get a Samsung Galaxy S2 and you'll never look back.

No problem here, I can write a headline that is relevant to the question I want to ask. (Sorry, a pet peeve).

Really though, you will probably get a better set of answers.