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Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas (wfaa.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the too-hot-to-handle dept.

New submitter JustChapman writes: Local Dallas/Fort Worth WFAA is reporting a major outage of AT&T U-Verse fiber internet, due to a lightening strike at a switching facility in Richardson, TX. Apparently the strike took out primary and secondary power systems, setting fire to the building. One commenter states a representative allegedly said that 1.5 million customers are currently without service.

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  1. Yup, it's been a stormy afternoon here... by bobbied · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank the maker I don't have AT&T as my ISP, but it remains to be seen if I have internet at home.

    However, given AT&T's past transgressions, Somehow it makes sense that the Maker is mad with ATT and struck them with lighting.

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