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Old 01-03-2007, 16:46   #16
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

Could be anything i would guess....

I dont know whats in those boxes, but they could of been doing anything from just tidying it up to installing new lines.
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Old 01-03-2007, 19:55   #17
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lol, they should do a bit more then just a White Van with a Logo, they should do something like the new Sky vans.
they have, u wait untill you see the new logo'd vans.... very nice
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

I would guess that all the VM guys have some form of VM ID cards which could be shown if challenged.
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Old 01-03-2007, 21:05   #19
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

the boxes are like switchboards which combine each house's individual cable into the streets main cable.

they could be doing something with the update of the new look of the home screen etc on the digi boxes.


in the telewest instruction book i got about 3 years ago it said that all their employees and contracters will have a telewest (virgin) ID card that you can see on request and if they dont and say they are from telewest (virgin) then you should phone them and report.
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

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or maybe they are disconnecting skyOne :P
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Old 01-03-2007, 21:09   #21
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Probably surveillance.
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Old 01-03-2007, 21:18   #22
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It maybe nothing but I have an unmarked van with 2 men in orange fluecent tops working on the green box.

It maybe they are virgin media employees and the vans have yet to be painted virgin media but has anybody else seen this before.
I would take a guess at them being network Tech's doing maintenance on the cab. We don't have logo'd vans yet and haven't for a while. They'll soon be logo'd in the next couple of months.
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Maybe they were trying to stole your internetz!!!!!
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

i work for virgin meadia and i av new logo on my van and for the men in yellow jackets they will b subbys like me which cud b doin work in the dp or cud of been service techs upgradin
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i work for virgin meadia and i av new logo on my van and for the men in yellow jackets they will b subbys like me which cud b doin work in the dp or cud of been service techs upgradin
Wow, do we have an interpreter in the house!

Please don't use it, apart from looking rubbish it isn't the correct way to speak or write English.
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If THAT is an ntl engineer...
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Re: strange goings on outside at virgin box

I was going to say...if you have a subcontractor send him my way....my cable cabinet has been damaged for the past six weeks, but seeing that guy's spelling somehow I don't think I want him fiddling with my cables....
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