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Sjbarlow77's avatar
Sjbarlow77
Settling in
18 hours ago

Damage to non Virgin account holders house!

My girlfriend (who isn’t a Virgin customer) came home to find Virgin had ran a cable up her outside wall and round two sides of her house to get broadband to her next door neighbours!!

im having a nightmare trying to speak to someone at Virgin to remove this!!!

can anyone help??

7 Replies

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Seek advice from Citizens Advice or a Solicitor.  I suspect the installers took the shortest route?  Photos would be helpful as well for comment.

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta

    Speak to the neighbour and tell them it must be removed within 14 days or you will remove it yourself. 

    Virgin Media will respond much quicker to their customer who faces losing their service. 

    • Sjbarlow77's avatar
      Sjbarlow77
      Settling in
      • They’ve drilled holes into the brickwork, so I expect Virgin to come out and fix it!.. it’s easy to remove the wire but I’ll then have to repair everything myself
  • This is terrible, but doesn't suprise me.

    I'd just cut the cable, your neighbour will soon get a response from Virmin Media.

    • Sjbarlow77's avatar
      Sjbarlow77
      Settling in

      I think that may be my only course of action.

      ive a complaint number but nothing is being done about it!

      how can a company treat people in this way????

      • John_GS's avatar
        John_GS
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        Hi Sjbarlow77 

        Thanks for posting and welcome to the community. 

        Very sorry to hear of this and I'll send you a PM now.

        Best wishes.