Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

They have in excess of £185,000,000 turnover per month. Wish I was that skint

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

but OWE around £5`000`000`000 (£5 billion) still wish you were that skint?

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Not all that bad for a company of their size.

They make enough to keep giving each other bonuses ;)

Also make enough to do certain upgrades and buy new equipment.

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Exactly, VM have better things to spend their money on, like Samuel Jackson and Mick Hucknall, before we know it people will be coming up with absurd suggestions along the lines of putting cash into the network for upgrades.:shocked:

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

It was there when i bought the house.
That was years ago but it has started to annoy me now after 10 odd years now that i got my driveway made.

theres enough pace to squeeze in 1 car. thwe cabinet is 2 thirds of the way in the way of the other half.
you can get like a motorbike in but not a car.

an example

--------------------(driveway)
.......-----(cabinet)

(The full stops are cos the gaps arent appearing and the cabinet markings go right at the start of the page)

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

"C'est la vie".

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Then as I said before, you are going to have to pay to get it moved. Just the same as you would have to pay BT to get a phone pole moved, or pay the council to have a drop kerb installed.

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

we had a box at the end of our block of houses that was placed on a field backing on to a neighbours side wall.
the kids used to find it a good laugh to set fire,pee in it and try to destroy it.
they have now moved the box underground.
we lost our services for two days but where supplied with a mobile and given two free months of TV,BB and line rental.
:D

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

So you widened your driveway in the full knowledge that the was a big green cabinet in front of the area you were widening it to, if thats the case then no one will be willing to move the cabinet.

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

who said i widened it?
i fixed it up,
got them red tiles put in making it iinto a proper driveway.
first it was just a messed up area with patches of grass and plants looking like a mini jungle

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Well if you are going to fight them make sure you have a good lawyer and that you did not need permission from the landowner or council for any work you did. I am not taking sides here with anyone but just make sure your arse is covered if you are going to fight them over it. ;)

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Sorry if I got that wrong, just from the description it sounded like you had made the entrance wider than the standard 2 metre opening most properties have.;)

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

I can appreciate the misery that this sort of thing brings - there are a group of kids in my street who are a pain in the bum. Their last escapade was to try and break the LNB off of all of the Sky dishes with a football, with a great deal of success!

VM is under no obligation to apply for planning permission for street cabinets UNLESS the size of the structure is over 2.5 cubic metres (under the town and country planning act/general permitted development) - you'd be surprised how big this is. VM is, however, obliged to notify the local authority planning office of its intention to site new street furniture and its location and the authority can object to the siting of the cabinet(s). There should be consultation with the local authority highways department, too.

If there are two cabinets co-located, it sounds like the cabinets where the fibre-optics change to copper/coax cables (might not be though depending on which cable company it used to be) - not cheap to move at all, and I don't ever think that they'll be put underground.

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

I have complained and complained and complained to Virginmedia and there workmen.

Oh my god the box for my street no longer locks it needs the doors replacing.

The Virginmedia guys are fixing this box at least three times a week were cables have been ripped out.

We have CCTV located there but does this spyware see the vandals?NO way.

Virginmedia upgrade was free?No it was not bills went up.

Re: The Virgin Media cabinets in the street
 

Re the kids, maybe what you should do is dump a load of those chicken pellets through the parents letterboxes.

Either that, or get a pellet gun. Once a few of them hear the shots and the pellets hitting near their feet, they'll soon find somewhere else to go.