Private lines, such as T1 and T3 cables, cover 45.3 percent.

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Eircom would cut its work force by outsourcing a lot of what it had been doing, such as digging trenches and laying cables.

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They often appear to occupy themselves with irrelevant activities such as filling out paperwork and writing cables to their superiors in the United States.

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But crime more acute to rural areas, such as fly-tipping and the theft of farmyard equipment and underground cables, has also been identified as "key crime areas".

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The zoo uses so-called hot wires -- or electrically charged cables -- as training tools to keep animals away from such areas as plant beds.

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