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[h=1]Ex-SingTel engineer cuts cables causing $185,000 damage[/h]
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Monday, Aug 08, 2011
SINGAPORE - An ex-SingTel engineer admitted in court today that he had caused more than $185,000 damage by cutting fibre optic cables affecting housing estates islandwide.
Terence Tan Khoon Shan, 34, struck at housing estates like Ang Mo Kio, Clementi, Bishan, Serangoon, Toa Payoh, Yishun, Sembawang and Sengkang. He damaged the cables in March and April, causing widespread inconvenience to residents.
According to a national broadcaster, thousands of households in Singapore were unable to connect to the Internet, receive television broadcasts and make telephone calls earlier this year because of Tan's actions.
Tan first joined SingTel as an engineering officer in August 2009 where he worked in the "Fibre to the Home" project. The project is an initiative aimed at providing ultra-high speed Internet connections to end users.
But he was terminated last September. In court, Tan told District Judge Lee Poh Choo he was angry with his supervisors and had sabotaged them by cutting the cables which were in "Fibre Splicing Boxes."
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told the court earlier today that the boxes are located at HDB blocks and are secured with a locking mechanism.
The keys to them are usually left on top of the boxes for contractors.
The court heard that Tan had reportedly found a set of such keys sometime early this year at a Clementi block of flats and took it.
He discovered that the keys could operate the locking mechanism of similar boxes. He then committed the mischief and was arrested after an investigation was launched.
Earlier today, he pleaded guilty to 60 of 617 charges of committing mischief. If found guilty, Tan will face up to $10,000 and/or a jail term of up to three years per charge.
The case is adjourned to Aug 23 for sentencing.
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[h=1]Ex-SingTel engineer cuts cables causing $185,000 damage[/h]
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Monday, Aug 08, 2011
SINGAPORE - An ex-SingTel engineer admitted in court today that he had caused more than $185,000 damage by cutting fibre optic cables affecting housing estates islandwide.
Terence Tan Khoon Shan, 34, struck at housing estates like Ang Mo Kio, Clementi, Bishan, Serangoon, Toa Payoh, Yishun, Sembawang and Sengkang. He damaged the cables in March and April, causing widespread inconvenience to residents.
According to a national broadcaster, thousands of households in Singapore were unable to connect to the Internet, receive television broadcasts and make telephone calls earlier this year because of Tan's actions.
Tan first joined SingTel as an engineering officer in August 2009 where he worked in the "Fibre to the Home" project. The project is an initiative aimed at providing ultra-high speed Internet connections to end users.
But he was terminated last September. In court, Tan told District Judge Lee Poh Choo he was angry with his supervisors and had sabotaged them by cutting the cables which were in "Fibre Splicing Boxes."
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told the court earlier today that the boxes are located at HDB blocks and are secured with a locking mechanism.
The keys to them are usually left on top of the boxes for contractors.
The court heard that Tan had reportedly found a set of such keys sometime early this year at a Clementi block of flats and took it.
He discovered that the keys could operate the locking mechanism of similar boxes. He then committed the mischief and was arrested after an investigation was launched.
Earlier today, he pleaded guilty to 60 of 617 charges of committing mischief. If found guilty, Tan will face up to $10,000 and/or a jail term of up to three years per charge.
The case is adjourned to Aug 23 for sentencing.
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