Remove old cabling

[edbostan]

Had fibre installed a couple of months ago and surprised the old copper line from pole to house was not removed lessening the cats cradle of cabling. It would look neater viewing the skyline and there must be money now laying dormant in those miles of unused copper wiring.

[XRaySpeX]

Yes, it is usual to remove the old copper dropline when you have Full Fibre installed. You do have Full Fibre with a separate fibre dropline from the pole, don't you?

As it happens I didn't have my copper dropline removed but I had to ask the eng to make sure not to. That's cuz I retained my analogue landline alongside my Full Fibre.

[JimM11]

@edbostan Some installers will pull it out for you, others offer, but it's a catch 22 situation and a lot depending on the voice connection and the state off the switchover copper to fibre, best left alone and possible another round off removal for the copper further down the line, not everyone will switch copper/fibre and a good few Red flags to be overcome currently!

[edbostan]

We had Openreach and next door had Openreach for their Sky Fibre installation. The old landlines are still attached on both our properties.

[JimM11]

@edbostan Mine is the same, the CBT has 3 for a max 8 connections on it, and that is now after 1 year active on Fibre, so the uptake has been slow for moving, but there is no guarantee when the Fibre goes over that it works, so bad to pull the copper out before that point, and depending on the voice landline if used and how connected it can take a little time to switch on to full digital. Can go now as it has been redundant for a year now, if i do see an OR Engineer up the pole will get them to pull it back, and as you say just looks better with the one cable spanning to the property!