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Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered

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Second, it appears that another set of cuts has been discovered - and this one was in a manhole just a couple of hundred yards from the first incident in San Jose.

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Why can’t it just be random? Because fiber optic lines don’t just randomly get cut in different locations - all near each other, right around the same time but in four different manholes.


But what are the chances that some punk kid would know enough to cut fiber optic lines that would take down landline phones, Internet connections and cell phone signals and impact data centers in or near the technology capital of the world?
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First, AT&T has upped its reward to $250,000 - not even 24 hours after the company announced a $100,000 reward.
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these cuts were made by someone who knew what was down there and knew just where to cut.

a nice $250,000 reward might be just enough incentive for that person to pick up the phone and start coughing up some information.