I’m not sure this would be the right spot to interrupt/intercept cell phone traffic. Not sure that it isn’t either. I’m certain that it’s a main hub, of which there are many in the US, where large fiber cable meets and is routed to other hubs, then to distribution phone/comm stations and finally, out to the cell towers and individual homes.
Fiber optics carries a LOT of communications, from internet to cable TV to bank comms, utility comms, and phone and cell phone comms. It’s simple in a way, but also very complex in that it is handling and routing tons of data every second, so that when you call aunt Mary in Timbuktu, MI, your call goes the right way, and while I’m watching X-22 on my desktop, that information goes the right way.
Those fiber cables, especially the ones used by major carriers like AT&T and Verizon, can carry an enormous amount of data simultaneously, much more than old wire cable could.
Good points.
Maybe the target was a different building and it went off at the wrong time (or the right time, depending on the point of view (B. Hat or W. Hat))?