On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:00:38 EDT, "Steven M. Callahan" said:
> The average copper thief normally isn't intelligent enough to know the
> difference between black PVC clad copper and black PVC clad fiber until they
> cut it.
I wish I still had the link to the pictures - one company in Europe was lay
On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Steven M. Callahan wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore
wrote:
I didn't see a smiley.
And I seriously doubt metal recyclers are going 10 feet down into man
holes, breaking into locked cabinets, cutting _fiber_optic_ cables
(not
copper), an
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> I didn't see a smiley.
>
> And I seriously doubt metal recyclers are going 10 feet down into man
> holes, breaking into locked cabinets, cutting _fiber_optic_ cables (not
> copper), and doing it in exactly the right points to cause the
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
at least this year its been changed from "Terrorists" to "Vandals".
(when most likley, its over-aggressive metals recyclers who have
run out of catalitic converters to steal...)
I didn't see a smiley.
And I seriously doubt me
at least this year its been changed from "Terrorists" to "Vandals".
(when most likley, its over-aggressive metals recyclers who have
run out of catalitic converters to steal...)
--bill
The reward is effective and the one of the best uses of their funds in
responding to this event. More outside plant spending is not effective
when you are dealing with motivated individuals.
I'd like to reemphasize that you can't spend enough on outside or
inside plant to stop this type of thing.
Sounds to me like an ongoing dispute may be close to the bottom of this.
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/04/06/att-union-contract-expires-threat-to-cap-ex/
AT&T's answer is to place a $100k bounty on the vandals.
The other Bob
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SAN JOSE (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) -- Vandals severed multiple fiber optic
cables on Thursday, leaving thousands of people in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz
and San Benito counties without cell phone, Internet and landline service,
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