Fiber outage in Sant Joan de les Abadesses due to suspected copper theft

Internet and telephone service was interrupted early Friday morning, affecting Movistar customers in the Ripollès municipality.

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An outage in fiber optic and telephone service has been affecting Sant Joan de les Abadesses, in Ripollès, since early Friday morning, with suspicions pointing to a new copper theft despite unknown causes.

Movistar customers in Sant Joan de les Abadesses have experienced a new internet connection outage. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday to Friday, around three in the morning, leaving the municipality in Ripollès without service.
Although the exact causes have not yet been officially confirmed, suspicions point to a new copper theft. According to initial reports, the alleged theft may have occurred at a point located between the towns of Ripoll and Olot.
The company's technical teams began working early this morning to restore the connection. The company has stated that if the issue cannot be resolved today, repair work will continue throughout Saturday to ensure service normalization.
At present, no further details have been provided regarding the reasons for this latest breakdown affecting the telecommunications infrastructure in the area.