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I expect to see VRADS exploding at the same rate. It's just math.

Kinda like how all airliners blow up and crash.

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We're talking about Uverse cabinets, not airplanes.

And I'm talking about a technological fluke that had nothing inherit to do with the service.

Telco's have been running cabinets in the field for decades. Oooooooo 4 blew up! Everybody panic!

A fluke would be one, not 4. Quality control on an issue of safety isn't allowed to be 99% effective. It has to be 100%.

So i guess AT&T is overreacting replacing 17,000 units?

Unfortunately it often takes disaster to wake people up. Columbia had to explode before intense inspection protocols had to be instated on the heat shielding, and before people dropped the 'meh - it'll be fine' attitude.

So by your standards -- how many VRADS need to explode before something should be done? Or would you wait for an injury or death? Maybe more than one, it might take a couple lawsuits to balance out the replacement of 17,000 batteries no?

And it has everything to do with the service. AT&T clearly cut corners on the battery supplier, shown by the fact they're now out of business. There's truth to the saying you get what you pay for.

4 out of literally thousands of remote solutions. What is a fluke to you? Less than 0.0001%? They're being replaced as a precaution. Cable TV installers have killed more people than exploding VRAD's.