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Service failures have firm vow more security in area

Homeless people are blamed as vandalism mars cables owned by Hawaiian Telcom

By Alan Yonan Jr.

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 25, 2013

~~<p>Hawaiian Telcom plans to work with police and state authorities to beef up security in an area frequented by the homeless where telecommunications cables have been damaged twice in the past 10 days, company officials said Thursday.</p>
<p>In the latest incident, police arrested a 42-year-old homeless man at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in connection with the vandalism of fiber-optic communications cables under the viaduct where the westbound lanes of Nimitz Highway meet the H-1 freeway near Kili&shy;hau Street.</p>
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Hawaiian Telcom plans to work with police and state authorities to beef up security in an area frequented by the homeless where telecommunications cables have been damaged twice in the past 10 days, company officials said Thursday.

In the latest incident, police arrested a 42-year-old homeless man at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in connection with the vandalism of fiber-optic communications cables under the viaduct where the westbound lanes of Nimitz Highway meet the H-1 freeway near Kili­hau Street. Login for more...



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