Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

I used to work for the NTL cabling team many moons ago. It was common practice for them to don fake bt engineer jackets and cut up a few bt lines in the middle of the night. BT did much the same.

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

Oh really.

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

Surely you mean...















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Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

Well maybe the guy who installed my sky system is a nice fella, my old NTL connections are still in tact.;)

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

What...even if the BT line is still active and in-use? I know people (students) who have both BT and NTL (Virgin) telephone lines in use at the same time in the same property. Also, doesn't the BT copper cable belong to BT all the way up to the box in your house? The contractors would be committing an offence by deliberately causing criminal damage to someone else's property. The ones that did it as part of an install would lay themselves open to prosecution with a very good chance of conviction, since the customer would be a witness to the act. I'm a bit sceptical about this particular urban myth - if it happened so often, wouldn't there have been at least one prosecution?

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

LOL, Zeph

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

this thread gets worse by the post!

NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact? wtf do you think?? do me a favour, they get £12 an instal, do YOU reckon they are gonna take the time to cut cables??

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Zeph has made the only post with any cred!!

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

around 3 years ago, this NTL engineer just went into our front garden without asking he just used our cable box thing thats attatched on our house for our internet and used some of its cable to connect to my neighbour's box. I saw the NTL engineer and was asking what is he doing and why didnt he ask us? because it is our property he said "oh its just temporarily use, dont worry." But the thing was that he never even asked if he could use it....also when he did this my internet went mega slow.

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

Lo, what blade through yonder cable breaks? 'Tis a slag, and you are undone..

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

I would be concerned, and more so if " the neighbour " was still hooked up!

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

we called up NTL and made an official complaint about that and the high bills O_O

Re: NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?
 

Is the box still connected to your neighbours?