Copper scrap again in price
The abduction of copper cables has become a real headache for AT & T, the largest US telecom. Recently, cable theft has become much more frequent. The company connects this with the rise in price of non-ferrous metals in world markets and the deterioration of the economic situation in the United States.
There was a time when in the CIS in the early 90s copper cables were abducted literally every day. A similar situation is now in the city of Atlanta in the southern United States. In the Fulton area, the number of phone wire thefts is estimated at a dozen a week. Each time they steal from 60 to 360 meters of cable, resulting in dozens of homes without communication. In one of the thefts over the past three days, more than 7,000 houses and two schools were left without communication. It got to the point that AT & T announced a $ 3,000 reward for information that would help find and arrest thieves from Fulton.
According to experts , one kilogram of copper scrap costs about $ 6 on the black market.
Atlanta is not the only place where locals trade for theft and sale of non-ferrous scrap. For example, the energy company Appalachian Power has published a report , according to which more than 160 km of power cables have been stolen only in West Virginia recently. Their replacement costs the company about $ 1 million per year.
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The police report about similar cases from all corners of the country (links only for the last two days). For example, in one place in New Jersey, the cable was cut three times in the last two months, the damage was $ 13,000. One company in the same state reported stealing $ 75,000.
In 2008, the FBI published a report on this topic. According to their data, the increase in the number of thefts has been observed since 2006, and this “threatens critical infrastructure, since the electric substations, cell towers, land lines, railways, water tanks, construction sites and empty houses are vulnerable.”
There was a time when in the CIS in the early 90s copper cables were abducted literally every day. A similar situation is now in the city of Atlanta in the southern United States. In the Fulton area, the number of phone wire thefts is estimated at a dozen a week. Each time they steal from 60 to 360 meters of cable, resulting in dozens of homes without communication. In one of the thefts over the past three days, more than 7,000 houses and two schools were left without communication. It got to the point that AT & T announced a $ 3,000 reward for information that would help find and arrest thieves from Fulton.
According to experts , one kilogram of copper scrap costs about $ 6 on the black market.
Atlanta is not the only place where locals trade for theft and sale of non-ferrous scrap. For example, the energy company Appalachian Power has published a report , according to which more than 160 km of power cables have been stolen only in West Virginia recently. Their replacement costs the company about $ 1 million per year.
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The police report about similar cases from all corners of the country (links only for the last two days). For example, in one place in New Jersey, the cable was cut three times in the last two months, the damage was $ 13,000. One company in the same state reported stealing $ 75,000.
In 2008, the FBI published a report on this topic. According to their data, the increase in the number of thefts has been observed since 2006, and this “threatens critical infrastructure, since the electric substations, cell towers, land lines, railways, water tanks, construction sites and empty houses are vulnerable.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/109172/
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