Only in SA: Criminals are now 'smoking' stolen fibre cables

The Citizen

Lean Right

High Factuality

Media Conglomerate: Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers

Only in SA: Criminals are now 'smoking' stolen fibre cables

The last thing one would think of smoking is a fibre cable or two – but apparently some cable thieves do. At least one major fibre network operator (FNO) in South Africa has learnt that criminals are stealing parts of its fibre cabling and smoking them. MyBroadband recently approached some of the country’s major fibre network operators (FNOs) to gauge to what extend crime impacts on network uptime and rollouts. The publication reports that th…