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A global wave of copper theft is in focus for infrastructure investors, with organised criminal networks increasingly targeting power lines and telecoms cables worldwide as high metal prices raise the reward for each operation.
Telecoms operators and rail networks are the primary sectors exposed. The setup turns on how long prices hold at the level that makes the criminal risk worth taking.
High prices, high exposure When copper climbs, the economics of cable theft shift.
That is the dynamic now playing out globally: organised crime, rather than opportunistic scrap dealers, is moving through power and telecoms infrastructure at scale.
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