You are plain wrong on this.

I work with this stuff every day.

The underground cable that comes into my house is like an armoured cable, no idea what it's like where it joins the rest though.

There is shielding on Mainside cables but as FTTC is not reliant on Mainside cables it's not relevant.

"Mainside cables" and just want is that when at home ?

Do you mean E side cable ? if so it stll has no shielding as such just a lot fatter as a lot more prs in it.

You obviously have never opened up one of those joints then Bert. If you had, you would notice you were working on a 'mainside' estimate and the first thing you would see is the continuity wire that is either riveted or soldered onto the shielding.

Edited by deleted (Tue 08-Jan-13 17:50:39)