RE: Sean takes a vacation somewhere sunny....

["Daniel Golding" <dgolding () sockeye com>]

Union issue? Or terrorism? Or competition? (or all of the above?)

This doesn't seem like the work of disaffected teenagers, for some
reason... :)

- Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of David Lesher
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: nanog list
> Subject: Sean takes a vacation somewhere sunny....
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> Sean has branched out into lightweight tools....
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>    MADRID, June 15 (AFP) - Thousands of phones and Internet
>    connections were  severed in 15 Spanish provinces after
>    saboteurs used chainsaws to cut through fibre optic cables
>    belonging to Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica, the Spanish
>    press reported Saturday.
>
>    .....
>
>    Communications between airports were particularly affected,
>    causing delays  of three hours in the Galicia region,
>    northwestern Spain, while numerous automatic cash distributors
>    shut down across Spain.
>
>    ...
>
>    The Spanish ministry of science and technology has asked
>    telecommunications companies to activate a backup plan in the
>    case of such emergencies in future.
>
> Spare fibers in the same duct ;-?
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