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Originally Posted by philce
They nick it anyway, the amount of internet outages with ADSL due to cable damage along railways is getting worse.
BT have lots of fibre running in the signalling ducts along the railways.
I'm sure that high profile train crash a few years ago, might have been the Vrgin west coast near Preston caused a Virginmedia fibre rupture did it not?
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It did, sort of.
The fibres that run alongside the railways around the country do not belong to BT, they belong to Global Crossing.
Global Crossing bought the network from Racal years ago, who in turn acquired it from BRT (British Rail Telecom)
Virgin (along with many other OLOs, I'm sure) lease fibres from Global Crossing for their Network.
So it was actually a Global Crossing cable that was damaged, containing fibres utilised by Virgin Media.