Removal of virgin box

It's rare on here that VM responds to deal with cable issues from old installations where the homeowner is not a current VM customer.

If you want to watch Freeview TV, you need to employ an aerial installer to either fit a TV aerial or reinstate whatever Freeview connection was there before. A charitable aerial installer might reattach the VM wall box outside for you.

Alternatively, sign up for a VM package with TV included and make use of the VM cabling.

Someone from the VM forum team will reply here within a few days to give you an official VM response.

Alternatively, the charitable aerial installer might remove the Virginmedia box and bin it. You don't need it and it doesn't have to stay there. 

Since the box is already hanging off the wall, it isn't going to take much work. 

this is what it looks like. I’d happily pay I just want it gone.

Well that's a bit of a mess, never mind an eyesore !!  Fibre install as well?

You can cut those wires easily with a strong pair of scissors, and put the box in the bin.

If you happen to live near me I'll come and do it for you, no charge. Send me a PM with your postcode.

Alternatively, it would be less than five minutes work to put the contents of the box back inside and secure the lid to make it 'safe'.

Advice to chop unwanted VM cables is all well and good (some may need/want to do it) but having a VM fibre connection in place at a property is always a useful backup option IMO.

Even if you have zero intention of using VM now, or in the future, if you run in to problems with your existing supplier, or you develop a technical problem with your existing connection, the VM line might be a useful fall-back. Chopping the existing connection may make the property unserviceable to VM and remove a future connection option.

The "ideal" scenario would be to terminate the "out of ground" cable with a 75 Ohm cap and remove everything else.  That way, VM can reconnect at another time, and the house will not be marked as unserviceable.?

On the plus side this is really a good outcome. David is a VM employee, further more, he is employed in a position wherein a ‘reasonable person’ might well conclude that his posts reflect the official VM stance on this.

Now the post from ‘jpeg1’ and cited in the aforementioned message, specifically advocates, simply cutting the cable away, removing the box, and, presumably, disposing of it as you see fit, a convenient skip would work well here!

So there we have it, for anyone in a similar position, VM’s official and legal stance is to take a pair of wire cutters to the cable, a screwdriver to the box and dump as you see fit!

I do fear that David is likely to be severely spoken to by his bosses.