topic Re: Old broadband/telephone cable in Broadband

Old broadband/telephone cable

Blackjack1965 — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:50:23 GMT

We had Sky full fibre installed at our property in August 2025. Could somebody please advise who I need to contact to have the old broadband/telephone cable taken down as we are now having all the fascia and soffits replaced and it seems daft to reconnect wires to the new ones that are not in use. The wire goes directly to a telegraph pole opposite our house.

Re: Old broadband/telephone cable

TimmyBGood — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:57:52 GMT

@Blackjack1965

It's your choice to remove internal cabling beyond the master socket, and realistically you could have that out too.

You shouldn't touch the cable between the property and the pole even though it's no longer in use: strictly speaking cutting it at the house end and allowing it to drop would be illegal.

At some point Openreach might decide to retrieve street cabling for its scrap copper value.

Re: Old broadband/telephone cable

Chrisee — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:21:03 GMT

@Blackjack1965 if you are having work done that will affect the cabling talk to Sky as Openreach should becable to help.