NTL engineers performing industrial sabotage: Myth or fact?

[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.

[sollp]

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.

Oh really.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by sollp

Oh really.

Surely you mean...















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Originally Posted by darrenj1

I recently had an NTL engineer to install at my new address (well, it took 4 of them, but thats another issue).

He said that Sky always rip out NTL/VM connections in homes.

He was not impressed, but I suppose they do the same to Sky connections.

They should all get along and focus on services, not stupid things like this.

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

[lucevans]

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.

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?

[sollp]

LOL, Zeph

[Womble]

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.

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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Originally Posted by sollp

LOL, Zeph

Zeph has made the only post with any cred!!

[jerryl]

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.

[NTLVictim]

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

Originally Posted by jerryl

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.

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

[jerryl]

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

Originally Posted by jerryl

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

Is the box still connected to your neighbours?