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The physical cable that runs back to the cabinet from your house's secondary connection point is probably 3ft underground and contains a bundle of other line pairs which will have an outer spiral wrap steel wire armouring round it before an outer PVCsomething sheath.
I'd say its fairly well shielded and earthed....
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At one of our previous homes the cable that ran from the PCP cabinet to our local pole was buried less than 3 INCHES in the ground. It was also not armoured.
When a former garage site at the top of the road was replaced by a terrace of houses the three services (water, gas &power) were connected seperately as each house progressed.
Every time a new service was connected did we lose our telephone line. You couldn't blame the contractors, the cable was laid in the top (finish) coat of the tarmac. Each time BT laid a pair of GRP boxes in the pavement with a yard of cable between them. By the time the last house was finished there was a neat row of these boxes all down the pavement. At last sanity prevaled and all but the first and last boxes were removed but the linking cable was still laid at the same depth.
Oldgeezer
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