[35453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fiber cut in Ontario, Canada cutsoff @home users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Maton)
Fri Mar 9 08:50:19 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:46:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "William F. Maton" <wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca>
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Greets,
According to a news report this morning there was a fiber cut
which is used to service @Home customers in the province of Ontario.
Apparently, the fiber was cut as thieves were trying to salvage copper.
First, seti@home's facilities were cut off by a similar act of "simple
copper mining" and now it looks like another of the same sort of incident.
I wonder if there are statistics available showing a growing trend of
network outage due to copper theft. Sean?
wfms
