Thanks to Dan Hunt and BBC News Online for the Headline
I don’t know how many Countries in the World still have landlines, but we still have them around here. The advice from British Telecom is just to use your internet connection for phone calls . I suppose everyone has a mobile, don’t they?
The theft of 1km of cable occurred in a small village in Leicestershire , England.
The theft disrupted the service for the most vulnerable of people who either aren’t Internet Savvy or who aren’t adept at using a mobile phone.
Around where I live the cable is buried in the ground and impossible to steal. I suppose the thefts will keep continuing to all the cables are underground and that the Communication Companies agree to work together and share the network and switch to fibre optic cables and not copper. Surely protecting small rural communities from this sort of occurrence should be a priority.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏
