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Police have launched an investigation after hundreds of homes in Maryport, West Cumbria (England), were left without access to vital broadband connections following the theft of copper telecoms cables from Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) local network during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis.<\/p>\n

Such criminals rarely have any regard for the often significant impact they can have on local residents and businesses, particularly during the current health crisis, where maintaining internet connectivity is more vital than usual. Metal thefts like this usually occur through organised gangs and often target critical infrastructure in areas where they know the police response is likely to be slower.<\/p>\n

In this case the incident is believed to have occurred at around 10:30pm last night. Sadly repairing this sort of damage is neither easy nor quick and requires a significant commitment of engineers, which will be taking resources away from other critical areas during the COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Cumbria police said: “We’ve been in contact with BT<\/a> and attended the scene … cables have been dug up and copper stolen<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A Spokesperson for Openreach<\/a> told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We can confirm that an overnight cable theft has caused damage to our network between Maryport and Workington that is affecting broadband service to some of our customers in the area.<\/p>\n

Our engineers are currently on site and will be working through the night to fix the damage as quickly as possible in order to restore full service. We would ask any customers that are experiencing problems with their service to raise a fault with their communication provider so that we\u2019re aware.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Openreach has a partnership with Crimestoppers<\/strong>, which means they tend to offer a reward of up to \u00a31,000<\/strong> for information on these sorts of cable thefts (when it leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible), although we don’t know if that reward applies here. If you have any information on this incident, please contact them on 0800 555 111 or use the online form<\/a> – everyone stays 100% anonymous (information passed directly to the police will not qualify for a reward).<\/p>\n

We should point out that optical fibre isn’t worth anything to such thieves but copper can carry a good price among dodgy scrap metal dealers (note: replacing copper with fibre is not itself a total solution as the criminals often can’t tell the difference, until after they’ve caused the damage). The hope is that the lockdown might at least make it easier to catch the culprits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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