While sitting at home with your phone or computer for the internet Imagine the internet suddenly goes down. You’ve made negative wishes to your ISP, you’ve turned the modem on and off, but it’s not there. Internet is not coming. Then you learn that you are not alone, because almost all of your country is disconnected from the internet. However, no one knows why yet. What would you do?

Here is almost the same situation as this story, it happened in 2011. Moreover, not one but three countries were affected by this situation. At the beginning of the chain that caused the events there was a woman who was 75 at the time; Hayastan Shakarian.

Is fiber optic cable one with waste copper cable?

An example of Internet cables laid underground

You may have heard of the news that is on the agenda in our country from time to time; cable theft a fairly common phenomenon. In particular, copper cables that are largely no longer used are cut and sold and this has become a ‘source of income’.

There were similar scenarios in 2011 as well. even sometimes people cutting fiber optic cables while searching for copper cables limited internet access can cause problems. Because both copper cables and fiber optic cables ran underground in a similar PVC conduit. This can cause confusion…

A photo from the area where Hayastan Shakarian cut the wire

According to the news at the time, there was just such a mess. Hayastan Shakarian, 75, made money by digging scrap cables and selling them with a shovel in hand. accidentally cut the fiber optic cable instead of the copper cable. However, there was a problem; that cable is not just any local internet provider, It provided internet for almost all of Armenia…

Internet service providers such as ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa, which are among the leading Internet service providers in the country, were all affected by this situation. Apart from Armenia, there were access problems in most of Georgia and Azerbaijan. This situation It took more than 12 hours.

owned by Georgian Railway Telecom and Cable running along a 600-kilometer linewas, according to officials, ‘pretty well guarded’. However, the fact that similar situations have occurred in the past, albeit with smaller cuts, does not raise any questions about ‘how well it is protected’…

In addition to the possibility of up to three years in prison, Shakarian’s statement “I don’t even know what the internet is” is the tragic…

After the events, Shakarian was first arrested with a request for up to three years in prison and then went to court; that he wasn’t the one who cut the cable, that he didn’t even know what the internet was and gave many interviews that she could not hold back her tears.

Georgia’s Interior Ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze stressed that Shakarian had cut the cable while trying to disconnect the cable and announced that he would be released until the trial was completed due to his advanced age. It was also said that he would likely receive a much lesser sentence due to his age.

Judging by the statements of Shakarian and his son, who say his mother is innocent and cries incessantly, the woman was only around to get wood and he didn’t have the physical strength to find and cut that wire…

I couldn’t find answers to some questions, such as how the case ended and what Shakarian’s sentence was. However, some news in the following years situations such as commuting his sentence was named. What is your opinion about this? Do you think Shakarian really should have suffered such a punishment? Waiting for your comments!