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GreenLantern22

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I had Community Fibre installed a few weeks ago and I am also running down my Virgin Media contract which will finish soon. I have a standard BT Openreach Telephone Master Socket (see below) in my house from the days where I had BT. This is where my "old" copper line comes to. I am not using any BT copper services and if I were to get anything from BT in the future it will be on FTTP (which is already available to my house) so it will require a new fibre drop cable. Also the next time Openreach comes to my house I will ask them to remove the existing copper drop.

The place where the BT Master Socket is mounted is very crowded and I would like to get rid of it to make space for other things. Can I do that? I can leave the copper cables hidden in a metal box should I need them for whatever unexpected reason.
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Officially the NTE5 is the demarcation point and everything up to, and including the NTE5 is Openreach property.

That said if you don't intend to invite an Openreach engineer around anytime soon and don't have active service on the copper pair then I'd remove it.

(As an Openreach engineer I attended plenty of jobs where the NTE5 was missing and I didn't bat an eyelid - most of the time)
 
Thanks, I actually bought the BT Master Socket myself and I have the receipt to prove it. So it's actually my property. Back in 2015 when I was in VDSL I read that adding a master socket could improve the connection speeds so I bought one and fitted it. It did give me an extra 10% so it was money well invested. But yeah I imagine Openreach won't care much if they are installing FTTP as all the copper stuff in my house is now redundant basically.
 
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Thanks, I actually bought the BT Master Socket myself and I have the receipt to prove it. So it's actually my property. Back in 2015 when I was in VDSL I read that adding a master socket could improve the connection speeds so I bought one and fitted it. It did give me an extra 10% so it was money well invested. But yeah I imagine Openreach won't care much if they are installing FTTP as all the copper stuff in my house is now redundant basically.
I'm sure in the very unlikely event you need it again, you could just buy a new one and fit it and no one would even know 😄
 
I just disconnected the incoming (dead) copper feed to simplify the process.

I know you're not supposed to touch OR's copper but ehh, I don't think they care and disconnecting it meant it simplified the whole process of moving the house to VOIP.
 
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