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As society progressively depends on large-scale telecommunications networks and their connectivity rapidly rises over time, it becomes of vital importance to study their topological features. On the backbone level uncertain disturbances of its constituent parts may affect a sizable proportion of the population, thus this can well explain the recent focus on evaluating backbone robustness metrics....