On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:08:26 -0800 (PST), Tabby wrote:

On Jan 12, 8:30*pm, "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?

Regards

if its copper coated steel, adding notices to that effect _might_
deter people.


I think the only thing that works is word of mouth ...

It seems to work like this:

Some toerag nicks a length of telephone cable, about which there is a lot
of (local) publicity.

Every other villain in the vicinity thinks it's a good idea and, suddenly,
there's cable being nicked all over the place.

Then, as they all realise that what they've nicked is a large lump of
plastic with minimal copper added and, no doubt, moan about it to their
mates, the word gets around that it isn't worth the effort and the problem
goes away ...

Of course, by this time, the initial news has spread and the next thing you
know, ther's another outbreak at the other end of the county ...!

We had it happen here twice within a short period a few years ago but,
thankfully, it hasn't happened again since ...
--
Terry