Thousands cut off from phone service -- vandals

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joe Pistritto <jcp () jcphome com>
Date: April 9, 2009 9:35:15 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Thousands cut off from phone service  -- vandals

You know this might have been copper thieves (maybe dumb ones).

About a year ago, several amateur radio repeaters (and i assume a lot  
of commercial radio sites) were vandalized in the Bay Area by people  
stealing the *power* cables (and antenna cables too).  In our case,  
over 500' of power wire was removed from the site (while it was turned  
*on*).   Lots of other sites on mountain tops throughout California  
had similar problems.  I know several owners in Southern California  
who have had similar things happen to them.   I hear its gotten better  
since the price of copper has dropped, but vandalizing remote  
facilities has become a big problem out here.

-jcp-


David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Ari Ollikainen <ari () olteco com>
> Date: April 9, 2009 2:30:00 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Thousands cut off from phone service (land AND cell)
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> Update: <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/BAP816VTE6.DTL 
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> Phone service sabotaged for thousands
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> Henry K. Lee,Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers
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> Thursday, April 9, 2009
> Thousands of south Santa Clara County residents are wakin...
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> (04-09) 11:20 PDT SAN JOSE -- Vandals cut four AT&T fiber-optic  
> cables in San Jose early this morning, knocking out landline and  
> cellular phone service and the Internet to thousands of residential  
> customers and businesses in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito  
> counties, authorities said.
>
> The fiber-optic cables were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along  
> Monterey Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose,  
> police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said.
>
> Police used yellow tape to cordon off the area, which is near  
> railroad tracks, as investigators and phone company workers  
> descended into an underground vault where the cables are located.
>
> "We're treating this as a crime scene," Lopez said.
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