Removing old Virgin cables

Bendy_House

Section62 said:

Bendy_House said:

Ooh, personal. I'm telling MSE...

What's personal?  I'm using 'you' in the generic sense.

I was eating a flake at the time, so I am taking it personal.

Gavin83

I had Virgin cables running into my flat once I didn’t want. I left the brown box on the wall outside but removed the cable from that point onwards, along with the box inside. Unsurprisingly nothing happened.

To be honest this feels like a case of stretching the rules to me. I can totally understand the need to protect the likes of telephone lines serving multiple properties across your land but a Virgin cable just for your house? No chance Virgin will care about that. Worst case scenario they may charge you more if you ever wanted it reinstated. 

All IMO of course but in your shoes I’d definitely just rip it down like I’ve done in the past. No Virgin cables on my current house though.

Section62

anotheruser said:

Section62 said:

rigolith said:

I know Virgin won't remove them, technically their property etc.

Definitely their property.

If you damage/remove the equipment then Virgin may try to bill you for repairs...

I also wouldn't suggest they're the cable company property anymore.  Router / Modem / TV box yes but not the cables.

How does the logic for that work then?

At what point in time does the infrastructure the cable company laid under your garden/drive and onto your house cease to be their property?

And is that point in time defined anywhere in the provisions of the Electronic Communications Code?

plumb1_2

More chance of Putin going to Bournemouth for his summer holidays, than virgin checking if the cables have been removed.

[Deleted User]

Section62 said:

[Deleted User] said:

First, they will have my address so will know where to check, and have a pretty good idea of who did it. At the moment I can just say they had been removed by persons unknown, in the unlikely event that they even notice.

If they do notice then you'll need to make sure that all google streetview, EA pics etc have been removed from the internet, or else don't show the Virgin equipment.  Unfortunately living in the information age means lots of potentially incriminating evidence is out there, some of it we don't know about.

People have found that an approach similar to Bendy's "I know nothing about it/Before my time" has failed thanks to google's gift to posterity.

As the property owner the liability probably remains with you, although in a genuine case of theft/vandalism by a third party I guess Virgin would be sympathetic if the damage was promptly reported to them.

House was blurred out on Street View since they started it way back. I think there are other companies doing it now though, hard to keep up with them all.

Anyway, my story is that it fell off so I tidied it up, which is actually true. I did email them to see if they would come and sort it but got no reply.