Criminals stealing fibre cables and "smoking" them

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Criminals stealing fibre cables and "smoking" them

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 asked the country's biggest FNOs how their rollouts and network uptime were impacted by crime.

 

[mpdjhb]

Criminals. Robbing the poor of a future.

Need a few trained snipers - a week or two of headshots will make the rest less brave.

 

[ShaunSA]

South Africans

 

[Harmonic]

South Africans

If they can't fck it, they smoke it

 

[backstreetboy]

Who cares? Starlink will save us all.

 

[Swa]

Time to make fibre toxic. Another proudly SA invention.

 

[SilverCode]

I wish the media would stop using the term "Business Forums" and just call them criminals. By calling them by their preferred name, you are giving them some level of credibility. Maybe there is a more legal safe word like extortionists or mafia, but please stop entertaining these thugs by calling them by their preferred pronouns.

 

[ShaunSA]

Who cares? Starlink will save us all.

/plays spot the Muskette

 

[ToxicBunny]

This lot can still surprise me in terms of the random ways they can figure out how to destroy things purely for the sake of "getting high"

Who the actual fsck though smoking glass would be a good idea

 

[CPTBoy]

You can't make this sh#t up!

 

[backstreetboy]

/plays spot the Muskette

Is it an eau de toilette?

 

[RedViking]

Ag no man, give them ProNutro.

 

[ShaunSA]

Is it an eau de toilette?

I guess having your head up Eelawn's arse would give you certain smells yes

 

[FaSMaN]

IDK, the internet is full of viruses you might just catch something .... or far worse, become a elon fanboy on twitter (X) , rather dont smoke fiber, seeing as weed is legal-ish now.

 

[PAYBACK]

In before...

 

[Fulcrum29]

Sies man! Smoking FRP. I don't even want to think what that throat and lung burn is like, yoh.

 

[Fulcrum29]

They do this with irrigation pipes that contain FRP too.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Lol... I knew they would find an alternative use for it eventually...

 

[Flanders]

Just when you thought there was a cable that was safe in the Peoples' Republic of Wakanda...

 

[epah]

Who the actual fsck though smoking glass would be a good idea

Someone high from glass thinks its a good idea.