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EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Friday, October 17, 2008

Electronics recycling in action

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I had an outage on the line that brings me my regular telephone and broadband connections, for a couple of days at the start of this week. The cause, according to British Telecom’s fault desk, was ‘theft of copper wire’. Apparently the value of scrap copper is now sufficiently high for it to be worth cutting down sections of telephone line and (presumably) selling them to a no-questions-asked ‘metals recycling dealer’. I knew there were benefits to going wireless, but I hadn’t thought of this as one of them.

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