According to TVover.net, Verizon customers in West Virginia have suffered outages because thieves now are after copper, and telecom cables contain lots of copper. The most recent copper cable theft occurred at the end of January, when a twenty-foot-long section of cable was stolen, causing an outage which affected not only residential customers but also the emergency departments in the area. Verizon has lost a significant amount of money responding to the thefts. This used to be a problem confined to developing countries.
The upshot, however, is a potential uptick in costs to maintain copper plant, plus financial penalties for violating service level agreements, plus increased customer churn.
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