What is this ?

[FunPinkSwan]

Hello

this is outside a house I viewed today …

the EA said its cable for the TV , does that sound right to anyone ? It runs over the pathway of the house and into the grass 🤣 A bit of a safety hazard I would have thought

It is the BB connection.
Depending on how old it is, it may have been referred to as Cable TV.

The brown box will tell you the network provider (Virgin Media for instance, being brown it definitely isn't Openreach).

Not good that is is running on the surface, it should be buried. Shows the shoddy standard of their installation, it will be really prone to damage meaning loss of service and potential repair costs.

Is it operational?

I have that same box and cable on my house (although my cable is pinned around the base of the house) and it is indeed a VirginMedia broadband connection.

Mine’s now redundant as I went with a BT fibre connection last year.

Agree that it's a Virgin media TV connection.

Just for clarity, the TV and broadband were often delivered down the same coax cable by VM, so that could be either TV, broadband, or both.

Definitely VM though, they often just threw the cable on the ground 🤦‍♂️

Wow thanks so much all , this is why I love this platform - so helpful !!

I’m not sure if operational tbh, I would like to get it removed if I proceed with it, just thinking they will have to dig up some of the front lawn no doubt !

If you don’t want tv just remove it yourself. If you do want cable TV then get the cable tv provider to sort it out when you sign up with them.

It’s an incredibly minor issue. Not something I’d give a second thought if I wanted the house.

Surely it just needs tucking into the gap between the slabs anyway, and a bit of
mortar on top to keep it in place?