Unused and unsightly telephone wire.

JIL

We have recently had virgin media installed, they now supply the landline.
Outside my house, theres a cut telephone wire that is attached to the brickwork and then to the roof and then it goes to the telegraph pole that just up from our front garden. This was the old BT line.
I think its unsightly and needs moving. The dead wire dangles outside our house on the wall. But where do I cut it? 
Do I just let it dangle on the telegraph pole or do I leave it going from the roof? 

unforeseen

Who cut the wire and why? It should not have been touched. 

Browntoa

Coil tightly at your roofline and cable tie 

It's BT property to your phone socket and should never have been cut .

The other end is terminated on a connector on the pole , you are not allowed to touch that . Openreach would remove the dropwire for a charge 

neilmcl

Can you share a pic? Sounds like it's the main BT telephone wire, in which case it should not have been cut.

JIL

unforeseen said:

Who cut the wire and why? It should not have been touched. 

It is the main telephone BT line, when we moved in the phone  was disconnected, we were doing up the house and when we moved in went for virgin media. They supply differently and we had the connection going in from the side.

This wire now just dangles, but it goes up to the guttering and then to the telegraph pole.  Its definitely been cut it's about a foot off the ground. 
I have absolutely no idea who cut it or when, it's never been a concern, until we started doing up the front garden and then I noticed it and now I notice it every day.

When it stops raining I will get a photo.

Elmer_BeFuddled

JIL said:

When it stops raining I will get a photo.

See you next year then!!

Mickey666

Openreach won't physically cut a telephone line to a property just because it has been 'cut-off'.  There's simply no need.  In fact, they don't even need to visit a property to 'cut off' a telephone line.

However, given that it HAS been physically cut then I can't see there's any harm in coiling up the wire to make it neater.  As pointed out, it's Openreach property but if you've never had a landline contract and claim it must have been coiled up by the previous owner then what can they do about it?

Alternatively, contact Openreach and tell them you want their unused wires and wall brackets removed from your property or you'll remove it yourself.  I can't see they've any right to be on your property if there is no service being supplied.  Only problem with that approach is that Openreach generally don't deal with the consumer, they only work for the phone company providing the service, but in this case there is none.  But if you call them anyway and explain the situation perhaps you'll get lucky.