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Friday, October 30, 2009
Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
Thieves in Sussex, England made off with more than half a mile of BT cabling in an overnight operation that cut off 800 homes and businesses.
The recent recovery in the price of copper has once again made telecoms cables an attractive target for criminals who aim to sell them on the scrap market. It’s understood there is a direct correlation between the rate of telecoms cable theft and the market value of copper.
“It is believed a vehicle may have been used to pull it out of the ground and then the same or a waiting vehicle used to transport it,” a Sussex police spokeswoman said, reports The Argus. [Comment: They used to do a similar thing in developing countries using trains as they went past.]
The national telco plans to rip out and scrap much of the copper network itself. It is scheduled to install fibre optic cables - either all the way to premises or to as far as streetside cabinets - across 40 per cent of the country by 2012.