As copper thieves keep on striking, BT Openreach has announced that it will be joining forces with Crimestoppers, a charity which helps fight crime, to target and find no-gooders who keep on causing havoc to BT’s infrastructure, particularly in Doncaster and Humberside (Yorkshire, England).
In fact, this time around rewards are included: £2,000 to anyone who steps forward to give information about copper theft and consequently will help to lead to a conviction.
It is worth pointing out that the number of cable thefts has gone up significantly due to recent…
Chris Mizon - 1 August 2011 | comments. Read more
It is indeed annoying when broadband consumers have internet service outages – and Welsh customers experienced exactly the above, as copper thieves stole cables from the Monmouthshire and Newport telephone exchanges.
It has been reported that both Virgin Media as well as BT customers were affected by the no-gooders’ who walked off with more than 80 metres of cable taken from the location.
Although it is thought that the services have currently been restored, the damages of thousands of pounds were caused by the criminal activity.
The BBC has reported a statement…
Chris Mizon - 12 May 2011 | comments. Read more
Digging for copper to sell it off probably is not such a good idea if you are in Georgia, especially as it is supplying 90 per cent of neighbouring Armenia’s internet services.
A 75-year old woman had to test this though, as when she was digging up some copper to sell as scrap, she sliced an underground cable which consequently left the majority of Armenia disconnected.
Roughly 3.2m of Armenians were left with blank screens for up to five hours as the biggest country’s providers, including ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa,…
Edita Lozovska - 7 April 2011 | comments. Read more
