Gap Fill - Broadband Cables - Level 4

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   anything      beaks      colourful      constantly      damage      each      fibre      frustration      network      nuts      outages      parrot      plastic      puzzled      snakes      speeds      thousands      towns      unstoppable      you  
Australia's broadband is being attacked by birds. Thousands of cockatoos are chewing the broadband cables that cross Australian . This is causing hundreds of of dollars in . Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) maintains the -optic cables. It spends thousands of dollars to fix cable. The birds are causing to Internet users. They have reported Internet and very slow .

Cockatoos are a type of . They normally eat fruit and . An NBN spokeswoman was why the birds liked the cables. She guessed that it was their colourful covers. She told reporters: "They are sharpening their and as a result will attack and tear apart they come across." She joked: "These birds are …I guess that's Australia for ; if the spiders and don't get you, the cockatoos will."

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