Removing analogue phone cables.

[Mottie]

About a year ago, my mum upgraded her internet to full fibre. A new cable was run from the telephone pole to a box on the front of the house, then into the house to another small box with green lights on it. The existing phone plugged, via an adaptor/filter, into the back of the router. She now has two cables running from the telephone pole. Would it cause problems if I removed the original cable that goes to the old master socket?

 

[catlad]

I wouldn't of thought so, can you not disconnect it for a while and monitor it.

 

[aveatry]

About a year ago, my mum upgraded her internet to full fibre. A new cable was run from the telephone pole to a box on the front of the house, then into the house to another small box with green lights on it. The existing phone plugged, via an adaptor/filter, into the back of the router. She now has two cables running from the telephone pole. Would it cause problems if I removed the original cable that goes to the old master socket?

i think it is totally dead now, i had the same this year and had to cut the old copper cable to pull through the fibre. there is an open reach number that you can ring and they come and "recover" the old wire from the pole to your house.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Would it cause problems if I removed the original cable that goes to the old master socket?

It's the property of BT, so no, but if you were to accidentally snip, and the cable were to accidentally get ripped out, up the wall to the eaves bracket....

I, like many others, have the two wires from the pole, and no one is making any official proposal to remove the surplus cable.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

i think it is totally dead now, i had the same this year and had to cut the old copper cable to pull through the fibre. there is an open reach number that you can ring and they come and "recover" the old wire from the pole to your house.

Really, do you have that number? It's not copper, it's copper plated steel, and so has no recovery value at all.

 

[aveatry]

Really, do you have that number?

Yes I saved it somewhere - if I can find it.

 

[aveatry]

Really, do you have that number? It's not copper, it's copper plated steel, and so has no recovery value at all.

I think I found it in this chat group, I have not read through it to check before I posted it here

Removal of old BT Copper Cable

Before going through the process I googled this and seen a lot of questions on forums asking about this. But either people didn't actually go through with sending the inquiry or posting back on their topic if they did. I have CityFibre FTTP installed and am soon going to have Grain FTTP...

www.ispreview.co.uk

 

[Mottie]

I wouldn't have thought so, can you not disconnect it for a while and monitor it.

Unfortunately not. My mum passed away in August and we had the phone disconnected. It’s just that the original analogue cable loops around the bungalow to the rear and looks untidy. We're selling the place in the new year so I might just cut it where it it meets the eaves bracket and remove it. Any problems and the new owners can sort it out. I arranged the fibre installation for her and I’m pretty sure I was told that once they had installed fibre, the analogue would be disconnected and there would be no going back to analogue.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Unfortunately not. My mum passed away in August and we had the phone disconnected. It’s just that the original analogue cable loops around the bungalow to the rear and looks untidy. We're selling the place in the new year so I might just cut it where it it meets the eaves bracket and remove it.

Just do it, there will be no come back. I took mine back to the eaves bracket, and planned to remove it from the bracket, leave it wrapped around the pole problem is, it's across a road, so it would have to be quiet when I did it.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I think I found it in this chat group, I have not read through it to check before I posted it here

Removal of old BT Copper Cable

Before going through the process I googled this and seen a lot of questions on forums asking about this. But either people didn't actually go through with sending the inquiry or posting back on their topic if they did. I have CityFibre FTTP installed and am soon going to have Grain FTTP...

www.ispreview.co.uk

There, it's a web form which seems to insist on a job reference number, or chatting with an AI bot. I've just tried an email to [email protected].

 

[Mottie]

Update: I just snipped it off at the eaves bracket and left it at that. No sparks or anything. I did consider cutting it in front of the eaves bracket and yanking it out of the pole in the road but I may have done damage to other cables - the fibre cable also comes from the same pole.