<div dir="ltr">If it was a few cuts or a couple (dozen) meters of cable I would say terrorism, but stealing 16 tons of cable and going to the effort of bringing it back with you and loading it on trucks seems more like blatant theft to me.<div>
<br></div><div style>--Damian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Joseph Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Or a pure act of Terrorism? Not quite
on the same scale but I admit to once being employed by a company
that had to take emergency measures after some boring hardware
failure to lay fibre across roof tops to maintain connectivity in
acertain regional NSW town, and I am sure I remember seeing more
than one purposeful looking 'kink' in the fibre from possible
disgruntled citizens. I thought that was pretty annoying but
someone coming and stealing a chunk of your cable would be quite
bad when it holds that much capacity!<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 10/04/13 20:20, Damian Guppy wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe they think that they are copper cables or
something? There is a fair amount of metal in them (usually
stranded steel) for structual integrity so they might (must?) be
doing it for the scrap value.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Mark
Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
<br>
Is there a (black)market for 2nd hand submarine cable, or is
there something it is made with that is valuable enough to
make it worth stealing (copper perhaps?). It isn't going to
be the cleanest thing to buy and either redeploy or pull
apart.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mark.<br>
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> Exactly what I heard. One cable and restoration
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> crazy :)<br>
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> On 10/04/2013, at 5:11 PM, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <<a href="mailto:gaurab@lahai.com" target="_blank">gaurab@lahai.com</a>>
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>>> 3 cables were apparently affected in this
alleged and as yet<br>
>>> unconfirmed act of sabotage.<br>
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>> from a cable owner, this sabotage effected all
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>> SG-ID, and happened in a span of 3 weeks or
so. SMW3 on the SG-ID<br>
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