The U-verse is Exploding!

[oz]

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16, 2008, 11:10 a.m.
By Rick Barrett
Explosions mar AT&T video service cabinets

AT&T Corp. is replacing thousands of batteries in outdoor cabinets that provide U-verse video service after several cabinets have exploded or caught fire, including one in Wauwatosa.

No one has been injured in the explosions, although the force of the Wauwatosa blast, on Christmas morning, sent the cabinet's steel doors flying about six feet.

U-verse, a combination of TV and music channels plus high-speed Internet access, has been available in selected areas of Wisconsin for about 10 months. The cabinets provide U-Verse to neighborhoods where the service is available.

There are more than 240 cabinets in the City Milwaukee, according to a recent Journal Sentinel analysis.

In a statement released this morning, AT&T said: "As we gained experience with these batteries, we found they no longer met our stringent performance and safety criteria. As a result, we have decided to move forward with the removal of all Avestor batteries as quickly as possible. Since these batteries are used only as a backup to commercial power, we do not anticipate any interruptions to U-verse service during this process. It's important to understand that this issue is solely related to batteries used for backup power in some of our cabinets. It has nothing to do with our service or core U-verse technology in any way. Our U-verse deployment and strategy remains on-track and we're very pleased with our progress."

[Doug Mohr]

Great! Now it will take even longer before they get a chance to wire up my neighborhood for U-Verse

[Cheesehead Dave]

That's one of the reasons cited for the delay in Kenosha.

[gparris]

The City of Kenosha has no more control with that anymore as I understand it:
Didn't the Governor of Wisconsin sign something in this regard, as the state controls over municipalities and Kenosha is just, well, out of the business of keeping them out!:rock:
I doubt the cabinents are the problem anymore and I asked AT&T to put a U-Verse cabinent on my yard, next to the poles, if that makes us both happy, just to show TWC how much I love them.:rof:

[Sparkman87]

Just went to the U-verse website, typed in a Kenosha zip & up came the channel guide.  Any idea how long until service starts there?  It's been rumored that they will be in Il  by the end of the month.  I don't believe it.

[Bebop]

Here are the pictures.

http://saveaccess.org/node/2018