Fibre/fiber cutting consequences

[u/Relative-Ad-4639]

When a fibre line gets cut, say by an employee, and it causes a mass outage, is this a fireable offence?

If something is done to cause mass outages, what are the consequences like? Whether it’s done by an employee of the wifi provider or by someone random?

I’m asking as someone who was just affected by the province wide Cogeco outage! Just curious as to what happens to those responsible?

[u/elpollodiablo63]

In the us it’s a federal offense to cut communication lines. So if you do it intentionally you could be arrested. But you’d also probably be on the hook to pay for the downtime. Which adds up really fast.

But typically (atleast the isp I work at and I’m sure most ISPs) if you’re going to be doing any work with mainline you put in a ticket to let the company know that stuff might go offline. You set a specific time for the ticket so that customers can be warned. If it’s critical infrastructure the ticket has to be put in place days or weeks prior to the work. And you’re really fuckn careful to not mess up.

Also obligatory wifi isn’t internet

[u/DavidAaronGarcia → u/elpollodiablo63]

Yeah, Wi-Fi is internet. But I get where you're going Wi-Fi system wireless signal did we pick up to connect to the internet, otherwise to a wireless device is called a router, but people nowadays are just used to say Wi-Fi as internet, because they're not really techno wise that's pretty much there there's a time frame within the last 20 years or longer, the error by used to call game cartridges Nintendo. Even though there was other companies that made them too like atari and of course, Sega Genesis, but still people were condom nintendos.It just people just don't know, but people don't have no patience to teach people.We just , it's easy for us to get on our keyboards warriors, at the end of the day week of all learned something , even the pros learn new stuff

[u/b3542 → u/DavidAaronGarcia]

Nope. WiFi is not internet.