We’ve found in the past it has been disgruntled contractors(employees) or Union guys.
I’m not ready to jump on the false flag scenario for this.
Again, 30 years of experience in this field.
Early 90’s and I work for a little company that wholesales wireless backup to Splint(yeah Splint. I have reasons dating back to 1984 why we call them that) ATT and a few other companies.
Constantly heard about cuts through ATT & Splint and we’d call em, show them our routing, hook em in with a partner company “MFS”, who co-lo’d in the same office suite(a plexiglass window demarcated our distrubution sites) and these companies were already interconnected to MFS or we could find paths at various telecom hotels or CO’s.
Maybe there was a false flag but, it seems lame to cut some fiber down one manhole. I can think of better ways than that on those same routes.
I’d light up the MDF, some DLSAM’s and blow up termination blocks, pour gas on them and have a cigarette.
Cutting a fiber line is more of an annoyance anymore.
We got machines that put em back together.
As for using a substation for target practice?
Wouldn’t it be more fun and completely more damaging to make your own chaf from tin foil and blast a bunch of that all over?
More like some drunk or retard.