Randrake I'd love to see your UOTrace information to compare it to the AUS and NZ players postings. A USA player having this problem would nail it as being a worldwide issue caused from within the USA zone.
Oh and since it nearly just happened to me, if you have a EA Support Case open for this issue DON'T let them close it. Keep updating it, even if they're not responding so the EA automated system doesn't close it after six days of inactivity.
(Edit: Reminded to keep your EA Support Case open)
I called it a night after that. Today it's working again but I lost all my achievements. I'm not playing through the game again for those. I'll just do without. If the choices I made through the games mattered, I'd do it again. But since they don't matter and it all ends the same way, no motivation to get achievements again.
That's an unrelated issue, but this works on ME1 and ME2 - I'd expect you could tweak it to work on ME3.
