I think you're confusing the "logical place" with the "best legal place".

I can't think of any reason why it would be technically better to change more wires over internally where it involves moving furniture and more fiddly, compared to swapping a pair in an easy to access junction box?

Presumably if you switch back to an Openreach based provider from Virgin then Openreach would charge for moving extensions etc back over to the Openreach master socket?

Nowhere seems to mention this through, but surely it's a fairly common cost of switching supplier that many people wouldn't consider?

Am i missing something? Or do people not move back that often?

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Aug-16 21:38:32)

I suspect the point is moot. Once they put the master socket on the end then BT have effectively adopted it.

As for switching providers, it seems to me you need to have the Virgin socket put close to the BT socket and then have a junction box between the two - so its easier to rewrite that junction to either box when changing.

Either that or try to find an old fashioned BT extension kit, that had a plug-in passthrough adapter so could easily be switch between either socket.

Good idea with the separate junction box cheers . I'm surprised one with a built-in switch didn't come up when I was looking for solutions, but I guess a lot of people get an engineer out each time they switch (and don't switch that often)

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Aug-16 21:59:59)

The developer's electricians do not install telephone cables for the good of their health. The developer is paid by Openreach to install their underground ductwork and internal wiring network to the NTE at a rate agreed by Openreach and the NHF per plot.

Wiring before the NTE is bought and paid for by Openreach and the householder does not have the right to authorise a competing network to hack into it.

Its not something that gets moaned about a lot, probably because multiple extensions is less needed in the days of cheap DECT handsets and some people actually when switching keep both services active for a while, to ensure no down time and do the extension wiring changes themselves.

Do Virgin not use coax these days for the incoming line?

Nope, still a twisted copper pair alongside the coax

Which means an inspection of the estate/build was done prior to adoption of the prior installation into the BT Openreach realm of responsibility and the builder getting paid for the work they had done.

Ah ok, never had Virgin so not seen an actual install.