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Tuesday 12 June 2007, 6:22 PM

Rats destroy London comms?

Posted by RichardThurston

It's amazing what rats can do. Chew your carpets, consume cheese, and, while they're at it, eat your cables. At least the last one befell Cable & Wireless last week, a source tells us.

Apparently, rats chewed through underground data cables in More London, the stunning new office park overlooked by Ken Livingston's City Hall.

The resulting outage caused ongoing downtime throughout Wednesday, with several large businesses unable to communicate externally for sustained periods of time.

Cable & Wireless has a different take on it: a spokesperson from the telco told us that there hasn't been an outage, and that no rats were involved.

So we're off down the sewers to investigate.


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