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What are these boxes?

Can anyobdy tell me what the boxes in the attached images are, which are located on my street approximately 300 metres from each other? There is also another one of the smaller type a further 300 metres along the street.
The larger one is about 80cm tall, the smaller one is about 40cm tall. Both are adjacent to CATV covers.
My street is not, and has never been (at least as far back as the 15 years I've lived here) covered by cable TV of any sort.
Are they anything to do with the BT network or are they something else?
The BT PCP and DSLAM that serve my property are a further 500 metres back down the road.
Any help appreciated....

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Not seen a box like the blue-ish one on the left before, but the one on the right does look very much like a Virgin Media street cabinet.
 
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Thanks for the replies........that all makes sense, however it is also frustrating becuase we suffer from very poor FTTC speeds due to long line distances from the cabinet, and to know that we were so close to being cabled at some point in the past without it actually happening drives me mad.....
 
Just for your information, I've had a closer look at the locations of the smaller boxes, and they are present wherever there are CATV covers on the opposite pavement, so I presume that these are some sort of junction box for the points where the ducts cross under the road?
 
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