After an outage on Thursday morning, Cogeco says companies had been again up and working by the late afternoon, however the incident resulted in $8,000 in restore prices following vandalism.
After an outage on Thursday morning, Cogeco says companies had been again up and working by the late afternoon, however the incident resulted in $8,000 in restore prices following vandalism.
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The corporate says they’re now working with the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) for the reason that incident includes not solely property harm but additionally a public security challenge, as house telephone companies had been affected, in keeping with spokesperson Kristen Curry.
“Sadly, incidents like this have gotten extra widespread throughout the telecommunications business in Canada,” stated Curry. “Whereas we are able to’t speculate on the precise motives, these acts usually contain makes an attempt to steal copper for scrap metallic.”
Curry says Cogeco doesn’t use copper of their fibre optic cables, that means minimize wires are often left behind as fibre optic cables don’t have any resale worth.
Curry says the $8,000 will cowl the splicing course of to rejoin the minimize fibre optic cables, supplies, and labour.
Anybody with data can contact police at 905-825-4777 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or haltoncrimestoppers.ca.
