NTL Seeking Permission to Run Cable?

dbready

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has been requested by NTL/UPC to allow them to hang new cables on the side of my house. Should I let them?

Is it worth haggling for free connection.

Just a thought

Cheers

Damien

spurious

dbready wrote: »

Is it worth haggling for free connection.

Absolutely.

dbready

That's what I was thinking, has anyone been successful in the past I wonder?

spurious

A woman I used to work with had their cable running through her property.
She used to get a free connection from Cablelink (in the good old days).
When NTL started to try charge her, she told them to dig up their cable (which she knew was feeding a large estate behind her house). They went away.

Del2005

spurious wrote: »

A woman I used to work with had their cable running through her property.
She used to get a free connection from Cablelink (in the good old days).
When NTL started to try charge her, she told them to dig up their cable (which she knew was feeding a large estate behind her house). They went away.

+1, a friend of mine has cables hanging off their house. Every few years Cablelink/NTL/UPC would send then a letter saying their free cable is going. They'd call them back and tell them to take the cables off their house. They still get free cable.

Thought my friend has a junction on their house, from your post it looks like they only want to run a cable. But there is no harm in asking for free cable off them as all they can say is no and you the same. If they need to run by your house then they'll give it free if not then you'll never have cable TV.

Be aware that if it's a new cable run you are granting them access for ever, can't remember then correct term.

dbready

Cheers guys

lucernarian

Meh. Analogue cable's pretty lame, and what happens if you want the useful things like digital cable, phone or broadband stuff?

But haggling will get you places with them.

I'd haggle a bit, but personally I wouldn't tell them to give free cable or GTFO. If it means that many people get better services. Without having customers' paid-up money spent on lots of men nursing shovels and ruining footpaths outside.

Btw, I've seen a few houses where the footpath was dug up for 10 metres and upc manholes placed at each end. You could see the grey cables going underground and then appearing again after the skipped house. Two off the top of my head were on the Swords road in Santry and another near St. James'.

Dardania

make sure to ask for a dvr so!

bob11

Hi Guys,

Just resurrecting this ...

I have been asked for permission to run 2 cables in a duct in my garden and up my wall to feed our row of houses .. This cable would then be ducted back under pavement to a new street cabinet which I presume is fed by fibre ..

This is to facilitate the upgraded broadband / tv / phone services..

I have been offered half price basic pack for life, which works out a 12.50 per month ... According to the guy I was dealing with, this is the most he can offer .. He claimed that if I had equipment on my wall, he could offer more ...

Has anyone here got real-life experience of what is the max I can get for this type of arrangement ?

Cheers,

Bob

Dardania

Sounds like a fair deal...do you have broadband? UPC broadband is excellent (as well as cheap) so maybe see if you can get that half price also when their works are complete?

bazzer

Del2005 wrote: »

can't remember then correct term.

Wayleave.