Yeah, explain to them idiots out there that 70Ghz is not the same as X-Ray or Gamma Rays… Absolutely ridiculous! How did that even gain momentum to the point of burning down masts and abusing engineers like that?
I really feel for them engineers on this one! ---------- Catalin From: uknof <[email protected]> on behalf of "Neil J. McRae" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 18 April 2020 at 16:06 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US) What needs study is how this totally unacceptable madness has happened. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory-news-latest-bt-openreach-ee-engineers-attack-abuse-a9468031.html Sent from my iPhone On 17 Apr 2020, at 15:25, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: Agree with Steve on spam, and I can’t believe the number of asshat companies that think using covid19 to sell their snakeoil is going to be any more effective than the last stupid idea they had. ---- Spam is up, lots of unsolicited direct messages.. in particular a Claire Durber of Stratus keeps emailing our staff addresses selling leased lines etc, and ignores responses to cease... We're seeing up to 50% increase in the last month on backbone circuits, this is mostly private capacity but also ixp and cloud direct connect. It seems to be continuing to increase rather than a one time shift too. Steve Mark.
