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Another explosive batteries replaced by AT&T

Posted on 17.01.2008 at 11:02 in Tech News by Martin

AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it will replace 17,000 batteries mostly used to back up power supply for its U-verse television network after two fires and two explosions in a little over a year. The company said no one was injured by the incidents and the replacement of the batteries housed in outdoor telecommunications equipment cabinets would not change its spending plans for 2008. The communications company said the incidents did cause some damage to surrounding property but it did not immediately give details.

Spokesman Michael Coe said the batteries were supplied by now-defunct company Avestor, which filed for bankruptcy in October 2006, around the time AT&T discovered the first incident with the batteries. AT&T decided to replace the batteries after the last incident, which occurred in December 2007, he said. Coe said AT&T stopped installing lithium-metal-polymer batteries from Avestor in the first quarter of 2007. AT&T continued to use the batteries after the first incident as a third-party investigator said the risk of hazardous failure was as low, if not lower, than for similar batteries used by municipalities and other telephone companies. We also informed about dangerous batteries from another manufacturers that actually killed people in China few months ago.

Source: Reuters 

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  1. WeeRuz
    January 17th, 2008 | 11:15

    Spend more money making them and you will not loose so much replacing them..

  2. AT&T
    January 17th, 2008 | 11:18

    Sorry guys this won’t happen again.. tsk tsk

  3. wezar
    January 17th, 2008 | 11:21

    “Another explosive batteries replaced by AT&T”

    Like you good english.

  4. thomas
    January 17th, 2008 | 11:41

    “Like you good english”
    I like too, dumbass!

  5. plasma
    January 17th, 2008 | 12:04

    I think the chinese guy had a third party battery installed and most welding shops say not to have phones, pagers, lighters on you. Another time a guy had burns to his chest and was found dead in china with briken ribs standing against a wall. They thought the phone exploded but another guy admitted to reversing over him with a tracked vehicle.

  6. Mikael
    January 17th, 2008 | 12:24

    “We also informed about dangerous batteries from another manufacturers that actually killed people in China few months ago.”

    Motorola and “some others” made an investigation and his death wasn’t caused by the battery. Can’t remember what it was but it was something else.

  7. essequemodeia
    January 17th, 2008 | 12:35

    @thomas

    Great pickup on the sarcasm there. Seriously, you win.

  8. MCF3778
    January 17th, 2008 | 13:29

    I cant be that lucky for my bats to explode… I would be so paid!

  9. C u n t
    January 17th, 2008 | 14:44

    9th!

  10. mbdc
    January 17th, 2008 | 14:58

    And people slag off Macs in the previous posts…. . . . . . . .

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