Re: Vandalism Likely In Big South Bay Phone Outage

The reward is effective and the one of the best uses of their funds in responding to this event. More outside plant spending is not effective when you are dealing with motivated individuals. I'd like to reemphasize that you can't spend enough on outside or inside plant to stop this type of thing.

Re: Vandalism Likely In Big South Bay Phone Outage

Sounds to me like an ongoing dispute may be close to the bottom of this. http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/04/06/att-union-contract-expires-threat-to-cap-ex/ AT&T's answer is to place a $100k bounty on the vandals. The other Bob

Vandalism Likely In Big South Bay Phone Outage [Was: Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 More on this: [snip] SAN JOSE (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) -- Vandals severed multiple fiber optic cables on Thursday, leaving thousands of people in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties without cell phone, Internet and landline service, poli