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Offline Pondus

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Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
« on: October 30, 2009, 07:38:26 PM »
Maybe your dial-up line is gone tomorrow DavidR....... ;D

There's never a copper around when you need one
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/30/bt_copper_theft/


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Re: Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2009, 08:28:35 PM »
Maybe that will be some sort of inverted incentive to get a grip on fibre optic cable ;D

Then again they will probably nick that too.
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Re: Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 05:49:02 AM »
That's crazy!