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Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

  • From: Henry Linneweh
  • Date: Mon Nov 03 06:05:44 2003

Not having seen the entire cut, I would have to imagin the entire bundle was
cut and the poor splicers had their hands full.
 
-Henry

"Vincent J. Bono" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The quesiton isn't so much how someone cut a fiber strand, but why the
> failure of a single fiber strand had such an impact on the telephone
> service in the region.

I'd be willing to bet it wasn't a single "strand". More likely the press or
whoever got it wrong and it was an entire cable or maybe just a tube.

-vb