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Originally Posted by redstar1
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.
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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?