Installation in a 3rd floor flat that is apparently Virgin ready, with a BT line?

[rmwebs]

I'm moving into a new flat next weekend, and have Virgin coming round during the next week to setup 50mbps broadband and a phoneline.

The flat's a fairly new build (IIRC about 2008-2010) and has a 'media panel' on the wall which has two Sky satellite ports, 1 virgin cable port and a BT phoneline port.

Virgin ran a check and said the property was already able to receive all their services.

I was curious though- how do they work this out with the phoneline? It's a BT line. Do they do something out in the street to redirect it to their network, or will my phoneline just run over BT? I don't care either way as long as it works, but was just curious to know how they do it.

[progers]

VM will run a twin cable from the local cabinet, one coax for the broadband and one phone cable, they will presumably terminate in some sort of terminal in the flat's service cupboard

[DJSADERS]

You will probably find that if the block of flats is pre-wired... like you make out... then the "BT" wiring will go to the same cupboard as in the building as the "virgin" wiring and so is basically a shared cable which gets connected to whichever service is going to be supplying telephone

[rmwebs]

Ah that makes sense. Cheers guys.