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Sean takes a vacation somewhere sunny....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Sun Jun 16 12:37:08 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:38:33 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean has branched out into lightweight tools....
MADRID, June 15 (AFP) - Thousands of phones and Internet
connections were severed in 15 Spanish provinces after
saboteurs used chainsaws to cut through fibre optic cables
belonging to Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica, the Spanish
press reported Saturday.
.....
Communications between airports were particularly affected,
causing delays of three hours in the Galicia region,
northwestern Spain, while numerous automatic cash distributors
shut down across Spain.
...
The Spanish ministry of science and technology has asked
telecommunications companies to activate a backup plan in the
case of such emergencies in future.
Spare fibers in the same duct ;-?
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