Rats fingered for knocking out NZ's phone network
Tim Richardson writes in The Register:
Rats are being blamed for crippling New Zealand's telecoms network yesterday leaving thousands of punters without phone or internet access.
Rodents are now thought to have been responsible for severing a fibre on a bridge in the Rimutaka area on New Zealand's North Island.
"Services through that fibre were able to be routed through different parts of the network until the second incident occurred in south Taranaki where a post-hole digger damaged a fibre," New Zealand's telco Telecom said in a statement yesterday.
Although no rodent has actually admitted the crime, engineers reckon the fury little critters may well have nibbled through important cables carrying the country's telecom's traffic.
posted by Fergie @ 6/21/2005 06:06:00 AM
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Thanks for the kind words. - ferg
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