Fire at AT&T facility causes outage for million+ fiber customers

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 an AT&T rep allegedly said that 1.5 million customers are currently without service.