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The seemingly endless campaign of copper cable thefts by increasingly brazen criminals has continued. The latest incident is one of the biggest so far, knocking out broadband and phone services for around 8,000 homes and businesses on Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) UK network across Maidstone, Sutton Valance and Staplehurs in Kent.<\/p>\n

The theft appears to have occurred yesterday morning and the details are still thin, but it must have been fairly significant in order to disrupt connectivity to that many premises. The high price of copper<\/a> tends to fuel such activity and, sadly, the perpetrators never have any regard for the harm they cause to local residents, many of which will be dependent upon the vital communication services being provided.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The picture above is a general illustration of what such cable, which often gets cut into pieces, looks like. It can be big, heavy, stuff.<\/div>\n

Crimes like this seem to have become increasingly common over the past two years, so much so that we no longer report on all the related incidents (we spot about one or more a week). Indeed, it’s not uncommon to see a string of attacks like this hit a similar area before it starts to subside as the gang(s) move on to target a different region – often as a result of increased public awareness, police activity and Openreach<\/a>’s security enhancements (e.g. CCTV cameras).<\/p>\n

The situation in Kent is currently no different, as there appears to have been a long string of such cable thefts hitting Openreach<\/a>’s network in parts of Brenchley, Wateringbury, Loose, Bethersden, Deal, Gillingham and more. But most of these have been smaller incidents, while the latest one is much more serious.<\/p>\n

A Spokesperson for Openreach said (Kent Online<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are really disappointed that people in and around Maidstone and other parts of the Kent are regularly bearing the brunt of criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n

These attacks on our network have caused significant damage and unacceptable disruption to the lives of local people through the loss of phone and broadband services.<\/p>\n

This particular cable theft has impacted around 8,000 homes and businesses in Maidstone, Sutton Valance and Staplehurst. Our security team is working closely with Kent Police and we\u2019ve deployed additional security measures to protect our network from future attacks.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll do our best to replace the cable, repair the damaged infrastructure and connect everyone back up again as quickly as possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Increasingly, it seems like the existing security and legal measures (e.g. the 2013 Scrap Metal Dealers Act<\/strong>) are no longer effective at deterring such activity. Despite this, there’s been very little indication of any campaign from Openreach or others to encourage a Government review of the existing remedies.<\/p>\n

The rollout of full fibre (FTTP<\/a>) broadband services should, eventually, help to mitigate such thefts as fibre has no major value to thieves. However, this won\u2019t completely stop the problem from occurring in the short to medium-term because fibre and copper cables often share some of the same ducts and copper cable thieves sometimes mistakenly pull fibre out of the ground too, thinking it’s copper.<\/p>\n

On top of that, it will be a long time before Openreach can completely remove their legacy copper core cables, so the opportunity will remain for thieves to strike. Openreach has a partnership with Crimestoppers<\/strong> to offer rewards for information given anonymously to the charity about cable thefts, if it leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. If you have any information on these incidents, please contact them 100% anonymously on 0800 555 111 or use their anonymous online form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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