[99527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: abandon cable & the price of copper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Thu Sep 27 06:03:08 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070913124852.GA29737@vacation.karoshi.com.>
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:00:40 +1200
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 14/09/2007, at 12:48 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> this might be a revenue stream ...
As I recall, it's also a big source of outages in Vietnam (I think?);
soldiers are allowed to haul up 'old' copper cable from the sea and
sell it. Of course, telling if something's copper or fibre or dead or
alive can be kinda hard for a guy on a fishing boat with a hook.
--
Nathan Ward
