Re: French telecoms
I saw precisely that on a very expensive north suburb of Madrid (Spain).
Telefonica would not upgrade the cabinet.. it was a bit too small, plagued by corrosion, etc, DSL connections dropped, etc etc.
Somebody, in the middle of the night, decided to torch it!
My then girlfriend started having decent internet, as they had to put a new one.
Note: it wasn´t me, anon in any case.