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[peter50]

I am intending to Rotovate the soil in the area where my virgin media cable is buried 

I have multiple cables due to repulls over the years. I recall the landline cable goes to a different cabinet.

Is there any way of confirming how many cables there are?

How deep should the cable be?

How likely is it that the cable is in green conduit all the way to the street?

Any advice?

[nodrogd]

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@peter50 wrote:

I am intending to Rotovate the soil in the area where my virgin media cable is buried 

I have multiple cables due to repulls over the years. I recall the landline cable goes to a different cabinet.

Nope. The coax & landline twisted pair are bonded together. Wherever one goes, so does the other.

Is there any way of confirming how many cables there are?

Not unless you dig them up.

How deep should the cable be?

A spades depth (if you are lucky). Many are shallower.

How likely is it that the cable is in green conduit all the way to the street?

If it’s recent, yes.But it won’t protect the cable against a rotovator or other sharp garden instruments.

Any advice?

Pretty obvious really. Avoid it’s location at all costs.

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[peter50]

Hi,

I am doing some work on external redecoration and landscaping and looking at external cabling.

I have been looking for the buried cable so it doesn’t get hit by the rotovator. 

I had a repull many years ago and recall the landline and broadband go in different directions when they reach the street.

At the box outside the house there are 3 cables arriving from the street. I’m guessing redundant cable, new broadband and new landline.

Can the redundant brown original buried cable be removed if the rotovator finds it?

I no longer have landline service and understand future service will be over broadband. Can I remove redundant landline cable from the side of the house ahead of redecoration?

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[nodrogd]

As per the forum rules, I have merged your new post with your old thread as you should not post multiple threads with the same issue.

From what I can see in the linked photos you have two sets of incoming drop cables. These are siamese cables with the telephone cable physically bonded to the coaxial BB/TV cable. As in my previous post, these cables will all go to the same cabinet. If one of these is disconnected at the omni-box on your front wall it is disused & can be removed.

I would also point out that some service tees in the street are shared with neighbouring properties, so you may have cables surfacing on your boundary that go to neighbouring properties as well as yours.

[peter50]

Thanks for the reply. For clarity:

There are 3 cables arriving at the omnibox from the street. In the photo of the omnibox the brown cable can be seen emerging from green conduit and disconnected from anything in the box.

There are two newer cables both black one is connected to the broadband and it's twin is not connected. The other cable is connected to the telephone wiring it's twin is not connected.

I do not currently have landline service.

I understand Virgin are switching to VoIP for landline service.

Does the landline wiring need to be retained?

[LittleMick73]

I think the clear message here is aviod cables with sharp tools.

[nodrogd]

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@peter50 wrote:

Thanks for the reply. For clarity:

There are 3 cables arriving at the omnibox from the street. In the photo of the omnibox the brown cable can be seen emerging from green conduit and disconnected from anything in the box.

There are two newer cables both black one is connected to the broadband and it's twin is not connected. The other cable is connected to the telephone wiring it's twin is not connected.

I do not currently have landline service.

I understand Virgin are switching to VoIP for landline service.

Does the landline wiring need to be retained?

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Virgin is migrating to 21CV for phone services (new customers plus existing ones on a rolling programme). This uses the TEL sockets on Virgin’s router, while the backend systems basically remain the same with the calls still ending up at the local headend exchange. The service becomes fully VoIP in 2025 when Virgin & all other operators ditch the ageing PSTN network.

Therefore going forward only the coax cable will be needed for all Virgin services, except mobile of course.