Telecommunications giant AT&T will put parts of its fiber-optic infrastructure in southeast Louisiana underground to avoid future hurricane outages, the company announced today. AT&T says part of the cellphone service blackout that plagued Louisiana after Hurricane Ida, which hit Aug. 29., was due to multiple cuts to key fiber-optic lines. The plan to bury fiber-optic
AT&T burying fiber-optic lines to prevent another hurricane cell service blackout
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