Any luck getting Openreach copper line removed?

Chickereeeee

Most/all of the houses in this area have now had fiber installed. The service provided via overhead lines from telephone poles, which means every fibre line is duplicated by a much thicker, obsolete copper line.

This is making the area look a mess, an means there are two messy fixings to each houses' facia, brickwork or wherever.

Has anybody had any luck in getting Openreach to remove their copper lines, or an individual or community basis?

molerat

Usual UK half arsed way of doing things, too much effort / time / cost as the 2 rarely go to the same point on the house so needing another hole drilled for the ladder restraint.  I would have thought there would be a fair value in all that copper left hanging around.

ordnancesurvey84

Yes, I've successfully had redundant copper cables removed from my property free of charge.
Just needed to complete the "Network Relocation Request" form here:
https://www.openreach.com/help-and-support/object-to-move-or-remove-openreach-equipment
They do a quick check that the cabling is redundant, if they deem it redundant they'll remove it free of charge.
Communication is a bit of a pain, as they call you, but if you miss their call, you need to email them back, but the work was done and without any cost to me, so I was happy.

flaneurs_lobster

Removing the redundant Cu is extra work for no gain (the scrap worth of the bit of cable from house to pole is negligible). Openreach (or their contractors) are paid for the FTTP install, not the removal of the old cable.

Couple of folk round my way have cut the old copper off at the house end (no idea how easy/dangerous access was) then coiled it up and attached it to the pole at head height. Probably dodgy.

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subjecttocontract

What's to stop you cutting the cable and winding it around their telegraph pole ? It's your house and if you don't want their cable to remain attached and they won't remove it....... do the job for them. I suspect they might come out a bit quicker to collect the loose cable once cut, but who knows.

born_again

Chickereeeee said:

Most/all of the houses in this area have now had fiber installed. The service provided via overhead lines from telephone poles, which means every fibre line is duplicated by a much thicker, obsolete copper line.

This is making the area look a mess, an means there are two messy fixings to each houses' facia, brickwork or wherever.

Has anybody had any luck in getting Openreach to remove their copper lines, or an individual or community basis?

Interesting as round here despite copper cables strung from poles, all fibre installations have been underground. Requiring paths & drives/gardens to be dug up for cables.

TadleyBaggie

subjecttocontract said:

What's to stop you cutting the cable and winding it around their telegraph pole ?

Messing with the Openreach cable could have legal repercussions if it caused a wider network issue.

subjecttocontract

Obviously but, a single cable connection to each property suggests not.