Relocation of Non-Connected Green cabinet

[Andrea234]

Good morning,

I have been trying to get permission to Build a drive in front of my house but with no success due to a green Cabinet with copper internet connection situated in front of my house.

A new cabinet has been installed to connect the fibre and this hasn’t been connected yet. 

I had a chance to speak to the technician responsible for installing the fibre connection to the cabinet and he told me that eventually the old cabinet will be removed, although it might take a couple of years. But still, it’s good news.

He also explained, from his technical point of view, that right now would be the best time to move the box, as all the fibre cable connection have not been made yet.

I would be more than happy to give space within my property boundaries to Virgin to relocate their box as it would give me the chance to build a drive in my property.

would you be able to help me with this matter?

I would like to speak to whoever is responsible for the placement of these green cabinet.

Thank you in advance 

Andrea

[goslow]

Have you tried here?

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/diversionaryworks

Past topics describe a non-refundable fee of around £250 for VM to survey and produce a quote for the work.

In all likelihood VM will not want to move any of its cabinets for any reason.

Past topics on here have described VM quotes of 3 or 4 figure sums for simple modifications up to 5 figure sums for more significant work.

[nodrogd]

I think he was a bit ambitious telling you the HFC cabinet would be redundant in a couple of years. VM is not due to completely roll out full fibre until the end of 2028. Even then it will take some time to migrate all customers away from the copper coaxial driven services like traditional Cable TV (which cannot be carried on fibre), for which there are still over 3 million users across the UK.

[unisoft]

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@Highway wrote:

I got the impression that a ‘fibre cabinet’ has been installed next to an existing HFC cabinet but not yet connected up, and the OP is asking if the ‘new’ cabinet could be moved before being connected up. Yes, the existing cab is going to be live for years and certainly isn’t going anywhere in the near future.

The new cab though, does it have to be co-sited with the old one? Could it be moved a few metres one way or the other?

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In any event, the dance will be the "hokey-cokey" with Virgin Media.... 🙂

[Andrea234]

Exactly that’s my point. I understand that the old one will still be live for more years until the full switch but if I can start by having the new one located elsewhere before being connected, maybe there a chance to build my drive one day. 

[Andrea234]

Very helpful, I created an enquiry with them. Thank you 

[Matthew_ML]

Glad to hear this Andrea234, can we help with anything else?