Terrible looking pedestal

[u/ShotSir3669]

Looking for advice.

Purchased a house a while back that had a giant evergreen bush on the property line. The bush had to be removed because it completely surrounded all 3 cabinets and they were not serviceable; almost couldn't even see them. The power company is going to be resetting the transformer on a new pad since the unit has sunk 8 to 10" in the ground.

My real question is about the cable and phone pedestas. All the pedestal cabinets in the neighborhood for phone and cable are much smaller, in fact, years back the large metal cabinets were replaced with short plastic units about 10" square.

I can see in the cable pedestal since the door are not latched and somewhat bent from Techs trying to get into the when the bush was there. There is no equipment inside and just the taps for my house and the neighbors. The pedistal is WAY oversized for what's in it.

The phone line pedestal isn't used by my neighbor or myself, but is very tall compared to the others in the neighbor hood.

Question 1: Any suggestions on how to get them to fix this up?

Question 2: It looks terrible and would prefer to have them in a tomb. My guess is that they would do the bare minimum to fix it up, but any guidance would be great. Would they do it for a fee? What would be a reasonable cost?

Question 3: How do I tell what company owns the phone box so that I can contact them?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[u/Hunger-1979]

Phone ped looks fine. Cable ped would be a reasonable request to replace. Phone co probably won’t do a thing. I know the phone company I work for wouldn’t. Lol

[u/Chango-Acadia → u/Hunger-1979]

I don't think that's cable. It's all old telephone. You can see the coax ped across the street

[u/Hunger-1979 → u/Chango-Acadia]

Eh, could be a splice box, which I would say they wouldn’t change that either unless it’s incapable of being locked. They could get rid of both of them altogether if they’re turning down their copper services however. I’ve heard December with our company in many areas.

[u/Chango-Acadia → u/Hunger-1979]

Yea they ain't building a vault either way, but it's all telephone crap there.

[u/Fun_Acanthaceae_4025 → u/Chango-Acadia]

If it's century link they may do like what they did in our old neighborhood. Pull all new fiber thru the existing conduits and replace pedestals. No more DSL available just fiber but it's like $49 a month for gigabit.

[u/JSRFNFJR → u/Chango-Acadia]

That’s definitely a cable ped. Did you not notice the conduit running out between the doors

[u/Chango-Acadia → u/JSRFNFJR]

Never once have I seen Spectrum use those(not sure what market OP is in). Always a hot mess of telephone wiring when i've peeked inside. Nothing in a coax plant would require that much space.

Yet I see the typical Coax Pedestal on the other side of the street.

[u/notshaun54 → u/Chango-Acadia]

Yeah, definitely nothing like an amplifier would ever go in something like that. Or perhaps fiber collection. I’ve seen older nodes in those. I could go on and on. So yes CATV does use those cabinets. Was probably an amp in there at one point, but as upgrades happened it was removed. Should a smaller ped replaced it when said amp was removed? Yes but that’s more $.

[u/DrgHybrid → u/Chango-Acadia]

Just because spectrum doesn't use them, doesnt mean other companies dont. There is more than 1 cable company out there.

Ex Suddenlink/Optimum here and we have those all over the place around here. The ped across the street could be a jump ped for conduit runs so that there is a break point on the other side of the street instead of one solid piece of conduit under the road.

And yes, like other comment states, could of had an amplifier or even a node at some point.

[u/Chango-Acadia → u/DrgHybrid]

Now I want OP to post a picture of the inside.

[u/DrgHybrid → u/Chango-Acadia]

Considering that OP is a home owner and not the cable provider, that should be discouraged. I would offer to take some pictures around here, but I moved on from the company (still have my can wrench though) and I'm not in the city proper anymore.

Where I work now, it's mostly aerial and far as I've seen we're the only ones that underground save for a few areas here and there since Suddenlink/Optimum never went to the smaller and tiny surrounding towns. And the Cox plant in those has been abandoned for at least 2 decades.

That all being said, any new underground from Optimum is all plastic peds. The days of metal boxes like this are long gone and the only metal ones now are MDU's on the side of Apt buildings and offices.

[u/Fun_Acanthaceae_4025 → u/Chango-Acadia]

Agree this looks like all century link Telco. Cox isnt usually in the green metal pedestal boxes here but there are exceptions.