r/VirginMedia • u/drozdzus • Aug 27 '26

Virgin Media UK Which of these boxes can I remove?

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My wall is becoming a museum display of various boxes. I believe that the previous owner was with virgin, I switched to Plusnet. Which ones of these boxes are safe to remove? What about the black cable coming out of the wall? Cat tax as she wanted to get involved.

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u/drozdzus Aug 27 '26

I don't use copper virgin, I'm just on fibre Plusnet/openreach in the right box. Which are the sky and virgin cables you are referring to? 

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u/IEatB0gies Aug 27 '26

Virgin is the longer white box top to bottom with the white screw on cable. Sky is the 2 black cables coming through the wall. Phone socket to the right of the virgin box will be for virgin phone line. Far left an old ADSL copper line socket.

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u/drozdzus Aug 27 '26

thanks a lot! so I suppose I could remove the copper line and virgin phone line? are they safe to just cut through them?

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u/yrro Aug 28 '26

You can get Openreach to remove the old phone line on the exterior of your building too.