Dallas police and AT&T are trying to stop copper thieves taking down lines and taking out phone, cable and internet service. In some places like Southwest Oak Cliff, the thefts and outages have happened several times over several days.
Dallas police and AT&T are trying to stop copper thieves taking down lines and taking out phone, cable and internet service.AT&T crews have been working all across Southwest Oak Cliff restoring cable lines cables that have been cut by thieves to steal the copper. And in their efforts to steal the copper, in many cases they're cutting off lifelines to people in neighborhoods.
"It takes out the whole neighborhood’s cable, internet and phone," Lewis said. "So anybody that has a landline, they've now lost their ability to call 911. Anybody who works on the internet, using internet for their cell service or working from home, they no longer have the ability to do that." "Been doing mobile hot spot since then. So certain things that I run, they are a little bit over capacity," he said. "Slowness is the experience. Of course, I cannot do anything with the internet for the kids. So work has been covered, but it's been it's been barely."
"Each section of the cable could be 100 to 200 feet long," said Brian Martinez with AT&T. "And in some cases, they're stealing two to ten sections at a time.""We really need the public to help us with this because it's happening in front of their eyes. They just don’t know it," McGruder said.
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