They likely stole the A train’s copper cables piece by piece, maybe over weeks, perhaps using a hacksaw or a tool similar to bolt cutters, New York City police said. But what added up to a “massive ...

He’s trading copper for the clink — again. A career scrap metal thief who was banned from the Big Apple’s subway system for repeatedly stealing copper wiring from underground tunnels is back to his ...

(Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc., BT Group Plc, Orange SA and their global peers are preparing to tap a rich new source of revenue: their old copper wiring. In the migration to fiber-optic cable, ...

A person holds a handful of recycled copper reclaimed from scrap wire at C&D Scrap Metal in Houston. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer It doesn’t take a lot of guesswork for Daniel Jackson to figure ...

European wire and cable producer signs agreement with technology supplier to equip new copper facility in Lens, France. Nexans says its new plant will “continuously produce wire rod from recycled ...

A lot of discussion of quality cables focuses on the materials used in cable construction. Just as with any physical product, the materials cables are made out of influence their performance ...

Parent company of recycled-content copper wire manufacturer plans to invest $500 million to expand medium-voltage cable production. The project entails building what Prysmian calls “a state-of-the-art ...

The industrial-scale theft of copper telecommunications cables is a massive problem: in the UK alone, cable worth £770 million was stolen from overhead and buried telephone lines and railway ...

The last 12 months have seen the deployment of equipment at ever-faster data rates as 10 GbE and QDR Infinband have become mainstream technologies in a large data center and other high-speed ...

South Los Angeles resident Shonte Dudley could not get a hold of her mother, Mable Bush, using the 92-year-old’s usual phone for several months. Bush, who lives in South L.A. near the Inglewood border ...

When it comes to HDMI / DVI connectivity, you have two choices: Copper or Fiber Optics. Which is right for you? As digital displays become more popular, and more people understand that a DVI or HDMI ...