Removing redundant telephone wires

bbat

Hello, there is a redundant telephone wire on the wall which I'm trying to understand if I can remove? I'm finally looking at redecorating this room and just don't know if I can remove it. I've tried searching other posts and seems to be conflicting information about whether it's a live wire or whether I should leave it even if it's unlikely it would be used again. The road has overhead wires and also fibre-optic (which is what I'm connected to). 
Photo attached, any advice gratefully received. The wire comes through the same hole as the fibre cable so appears from same 'box' but they are separate. Photos attached. 
(Ps...yes I know the cable running behind skirting is weird, but it's because it runs under floorboards to TV in another room).

Thanks

silvercar

Looks like an old virgin media box.  Do you have a landline? If not, it looks to me to be an old (virgin) landline. The good news is that if you wanted a virgin landline in the future they now are VOIP and run them from your router, so they won’t reconnect to that box.

bbat

silvercar said:

Looks like an old virgin media box.  Do you have a landline? If not, it looks to me to be an old (virgin) landline. The good news is that if you wanted a virgin landline in the future they now are VOIP and run them from your router, so they won’t reconnect to that box.

Hello! Thanks for you're reply. You're right, I have virgin media so yes the cable comes through there. But the telephone box to the right of this says cable and wireless and the wire is completely separate to the virgin one, just uses the same hole in the external wall! 
I'm keeping the virgin(marked as ntl) box (however grotty it is) but just trying to understand if I can take away the separate phone one  

chrisw

Just snip it off. Nothing will happen.

FreeBear

silvercar said:

Looks like an old virgin media box.  Do you have a landline? If not, it looks to me to be an old (virgin) landline. The good news is that if you wanted a virgin landline in the future they now are VOIP and run them from your router, so they won’t reconnect to that box.

Most Virgin areas have already switched over to VOIP...

I'd suggest plugging a phone in to the socket. If you don't get a dial tone, it is safe to cut the cable.

Eldi_Dos

If you are fortunate to have Fibre to the premises all the equipment installed before I would say is redundant and will never be used again.You may be advised to leave it but it is a bit like leaving the equipment for gas lighting in place once electricity was installed, nobody ever went back to it.

jbainbridge

If as you say you are on full fibre - it is redundant.

Plugging a phone in and checking for dialtone should put your mind at ease.

bbat

Eldi_Dos said:

If you are fortunate to have Fibre to the premises all the equipment installed before I would say is redundant and will never be used again.You may be advised to leave it but it is a bit like leaving the equipment for gas lighting in place once electricity was installed, nobody ever went back to it.

Funnily enough...the old gas lighting fixtures are still in the walls! Just been sealed and painted over mutiple times. 

Thanks for advice. 

bbat

jbainbridge said:

If as you say you are on full fibre - it is redundant.

Plugging a phone in and checking for dialtone should put your mind at ease.

ThanksFreeBear said:

silvercar said:

Looks like an old virgin media box.  Do you have a landline? If not, it looks to me to be an old (virgin) landline. The good news is that if you wanted a virgin landline in the future they now are VOIP and run them from your router, so they won’t reconnect to that box.

Most Virgin areas have already switched over to VOIP...

I'd suggest plugging a phone in to the socket. If you don't get a dial tone, it is safe to cut the cable.

Thank you

Eldi_Dos

bbat said:

Eldi_Dos said:

If you are fortunate to have Fibre to the premises all the equipment installed before I would say is redundant and will never be used again.You may be advised to leave it but it is a bit like leaving the equipment for gas lighting in place once electricity was installed, nobody ever went back to it.

Funnily enough...the old gas lighting fixtures are still in the walls! Just been sealed and painted over mutiple times. 

I would not mention that over on the energy board, there will be some who will say gas is so much cheaper and you get the extra benefit of the heat.

The National Trust for Scotland have a article, Lighting up the Tenement House, which you may find interesting.

bbat

Wires and box all removed. I'm alive! 😎