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Re: Junction box outside?
3 weeks ago - last edited 3 weeks ago
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'It might have been used as a connection point between external and internal cables which went to the master socket.'
Except the OP says there is no other telecoms equipment in the property.
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3 weeks ago
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Those picture look much similiar to my mate in Ketley as Openreach come out and put it inside instead of outside with few hour underground work to put cable in a small duct. But he ended up pay Openreach £169 charge.
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3 weeks ago
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Looking at the pictures.
The black Openreach box is used for extending and/or repair of incoming phone line drop cable, one of these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234184402449
If the line is being tested and found to be live would suggest there is a master socket somewhere, I'm wondering if that is inside the white box.
Re: Junction box outside?
3 weeks ago
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@jab1 I would agree with @mystreet1 that it is a wall box with a plain blanking plate, you can clearly see the screw heads on the front and paint remnants on the back edge where it has been pulled off the wall. As for what it was connected to, can't say but if the OP says there is nothing inside the property one can only assume that whatever was there has been removed or as you thought the master socket may have been in the porch.
However @Dan_the_Van has made a very good point, the box may well have the master socket in it and it has been covered up with the blanking plate.
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3 weeks ago
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Cheers, @Dan_the_Van - I should have known about the 'black box', and I suspect the white box is an old-style master socket.
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3 weeks ago
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Update, openreach are due to visit on 9th December to install new line, however there is a line, so I guess it'll be a case of running it inside the property..
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3 weeks ago
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@Ro_s Installing a new line is fine, they will look at what cabling exists and reuse if appropriate and/or run new.
I had a "new line" installed (alongside an existing one) and they used a spare pair in the overhead wire to my house then ran a new cable down from the junction at the eaves to a new master socket.
I prepared by drilling a hole through the wall in advance to exactly where I wanted the new socket to be; the engineer was very happy to use it.
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