VANCOUVER – Beavers have been blamed after a town in the Canadian province of British Columbia lost their internet service for 12 hours on Saturday.
The provider Telus said parts of the underground cabling, servicing Tumbler Ridge, had been found in the beavers’ home.
Some 900 internet users and 60 TV customers were affected, it said.
Telus said when crews went to a nearby dam they found beavers had “chewed through our fiber cable at multiple points, causing extensive damage”.
The cable had been buried about a meter underground and protected by a 4.5 inch thick conduit, which they had also chewed through.(BBC)
