@-tony- wrote:
wait here for VM but their history of getting something done is not good - its usually referred to an area field manager [AFM] and they come in helpful to forget it
you may get unhelpful posts telling you its a utility so you cannot remove it - thats rubbish but give them chance you might just get an AFM at the upper scale of helpful
be a polite nuisance and give them a timescale to do the work - if it happens great - if not remove it yourself
Indeed, you might or might not even get an official response from VM but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. If they do send someone down to remove the cables, what they will do is cut the cable at the boundary’s of your properly, remove the omnibox from the wall and possibly take the cable away - nothing really that you couldn’t do yourself.
What’s your timescale for demolishing the wall? Personally, I’d say you have asked on an official VM channel, if you get no response or a pointless, we’ve escalated this to a area manager so wait for them to get back to you, then just wait until the day before the work is to be done and take a pair of wire cutters to the cable and a screwdriver/lump hammer to the omnibox on the wall.
Absolute worst case scenario,’oh no some vandals have come round in the night and cut the cable, smashed the box on the wall, and unscrewed it for good measure and thrown it into a skip. Why no I didn’t hear anything at all and unfortunately my CCTV camera system isn’t working otherwise we’d have evidence of the miscreants at work’.
