"While beavers are clearly a broadband menace, they've got nothing on random gunfire. Back in 2005, we noted how several users lost DSL connectivity due to "random gunfire to a aerial wire," according to news outlets in New Mexico. Qwest's advice to locals at the time was "don't shoot guns randomly." That advice wasn't heeded this week in Cleveland, where a Level3 fiber optic cable outage (which many of you experienced first hand while trying to reach us) was blamed on a trigger-happy local: Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. . . When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. "Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable," said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman."I guess target practice takes priority....
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