On 12/01/2011 20:30, TMC wrote:
Hi All

In November I posted about the telephone cable to our village being stolen

Last Friday night same thing again

This time barely 50 metres of cable or so it seems from within the
village outside of a row of houses

Although Andy Burns may have more/different info

I have today got broadband and both phones back but neither phone is my
number

I even had a call from India to tell me my residential line was fixed
now and it took nearly 10 minutes to make the numpty understand it was a
crossed line

At least the BT business guy in the UK understood

My question is how expensive is fibre optic and the hardware at each end
and is fibre optic wirth stealing?

A local industrial estate has had half a kilometre of phone cable
serving it taken on four separate occasions in the past six months and
that appparently has not justified the change. However, on the radio, BT
claimed to have installed monitors on the lines that will alert them if
they are cut again.

Colin Bignell