Hungry Field Mice Knock Out Swedish Phone Network
Date: 23-Feb-05
Country: SWEDEN
Fixed-line phone connections for more than 1,500 homes in Jamtland and Medelpad in central Sweden, were severed late on Monday by hungry rodents chewing their way through a fibre-optic cable near the town of Ange. Mobile phones were also cut off.
"This is not at all common," said Hans Borjesson, a technician at TeliaSoneria.
Thousands of homes in Sweden have already been without phones and electricity for weeks as the result of a heavy storm in early January that killed seven people.