(FILES) This file photo taken on August 24, 2017 shows an inmate feeding peanuts to a cockatoo at John Morony Correctional Complex Wildlife Centre in Sydney. An Australian prison is rehabilitating inmates with a program that sees them care for native animals that have been abandoned, attacked by predators, injured in a car accident or even seized in a drug bust. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN
SYDNEY: Australia's government-built US$36bil (RM152.26bil) broadband network, already under attack from underwhelmed customers, has found a new and formidable enemy – cockatoos are chewing through cables across the country.
Repairing the damage wrought on the broadband system, including replacing steel-braid wires that the pesky parrots have gnawed, has already cost A$80,000 (RM259,535), network builder NBN Co said on Nov 3.
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