Fiber cut in Ontario, Canada cutsoff @home users

Greets, According to a news report this morning there was a fiber cut which is used to service @Home customers in the province of Ontario. Apparently, the fiber was cut as thieves were trying to salvage copper. First, seti@home's facilities were cut off by a similar act of "simple copper mining" and now it looks like another of the same sort of incident. I wonder if there are statistics available showing a growing trend of network outage due to copper theft. Sean? wfms