Really interesting info thanks.
I am suprised that there is no law that says fixing the phone line to the neighbours wall box on their outside wall that there should not have a distance restriction from house to house!!!!
for example 1 meter minumum distance to fix an outside phone line to the exterior wall from the border of the next property...
sorry forgot to add I am talking about a semi detached house here. Normally the phone lines go from the pilon to the outside corner of each semi so normally never crossing any of the neighbours.
What they have done now is fix the neighbours line in the centre of the semi detached house. The pylon is on the left and our semi on the left. The neighbour is on the right of the semi so the line now passes closer to our house and less than a metre distance from the property lengthwise not heightwise and more of a pain.
Guess it is an individual case thing then rather than regulatory issue
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I think that being min one metre distance will eleviate obstrucion. I know it sounds silly at the beginning that I am complaining about 50cm distance on their house but the line crosses ours before their house. Our neighbours are great and agree with us. The problem is the company doesnt .... if that helps