In Trouble with OR?

[LiamMc03]

Has anyone on this forum heard of any customers being fined/in trouble with OR for fiddling with OR's equipment before their demarcation point (in my case being the NTE5 socket)?

The reason I ask is because I am concerned about a make shift job that has been done post an accident with a friend (builder) we had in. He accidentally pulled the cable out of the wall to the master socket (thinking it was a redundant cable). He did repair his error, but I am concerned that in the future, if we ever need an OR engineer out again, we may be in trouble due to the 'obvious' end user interference.

Please see attached photos:







Just for extra clarification, that's the drop wire coming into the house - into the new (unknown brand?) junction box (there was one there before will gel-crimps?) and straight into the master socket on the other side of the wall.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

Liam

[Hedgehog1979]

There would be no way of OR proving this was done by yourself unless you have personally had them visit the premisses before and even then I am sure they do not keep a record of how all cabling is connected so you could just plead ignorance.

I would not imagine it in their interest to try and chase you for payment when repairing this type of cabling is an everyday job for their engineers.






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[LiamMc03]

They have visited before and the most recent one (whom didn't seem that interested in solving the problem) did point up there, as there were some wires hanging out - I tidied it up a bit afterwards. He didn't say anything though - I was hoping he would replace it. :P

[RUNITDIRECT]

Why on earth is the orange gel crimped to a short blue wire?! Or is it my eyes? If you are really concerned replace that socket for a BT80A. They will never know. & you can do away with that gel crimp!

[LiamMc03]

It was the original one going to the master socket - he forgot to cut them off. There was two, but when I was tidying it up yesterday, I cut the other one off. Trying to remove part of the plastic to expose the copper in such a confined/difficult to reach area was one of the most annoying things I've come across so far in this year - so I think I'll leave it for a while until I attempt the other one. I'm sure I can purchase the BT80A from your store?

Purchased your VDSL plate last week as my fibre went live today. Thanks btw!

My stats:

[RUNITDIRECT]

Yep we have the BT 80A. You could use a BT 77A which is IDC so no need to strip the cable but the 80A is the normal one to go on the drop wire.

[LiamMc03]

Yep we have the BT 80A. You could use a BT 77A which is IDC so no need to strip the cable but the 80A is the normal one to go on the drop wire.

Well, really pleased with the switch over today as far as BB goes. We now have a fault on the line (affecting only the Sky Talk service). We can make phone calls - but the other party can't hear us. Anyone phoning our landline hears a ringing tone but our phone doesn't ring.

Have got OR coming out within 72hrs and Sky are diverting all calls to a mobile.