Any Telephone Engineers Here

[Suntan Sid]

I'm thinking of getting a land line installed at my house, (In Cyprus, for those who don't know).
The main cable from the road has been laid up to a box in my driveway. I have laid a duct to take a cable, from this box into my house. I realise I will have to pay the telephone company to connect it up.
What I want to know is, what type of cable do I use?
Can I just buy a telephone extension reel, and chop the ends off, will that do?

Before any one pipes up with any rules and regulations etc, this aint the UK, anything and I mean anything goes here!
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[CaNsA]

Pics from inside the box?

[sickpup]

4 core telephone cable would be a good bet. Probably only use two cores so there are two spare for when it goes wrong.

[Suntan Sid]

I can get pics tonight.
Do the cores need to be solid, the cores on an extension reel are multi strand!
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[Kradmelder]

The old style cable, not the modern fibre optics? Our lines get stolen for copper theft so telkom is switching everything to fibre optics.


I cut my line myself to takeself off the grid years ago. cut it from the pole to my house. One of my protests against Affirmative Action. Since telkom became a BEE AA entity, I stopped supporting them.

My internet is wireless and my armed response alarm system works by radio. I would rather pay a bit more than support a state monopoly BEE entity.
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[Kradmelder]

[Suntan Sid]

Here's the box with the incoming cable:-

https://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu172/Troodos-Pool-Guy/TPBOX.jpg

I forgot to say, my house is wired up for phones all the wall sockets are there and connected. I need to make the connection from the wall box to the house.
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[Raffles]

[Suntan Sid]

Thanks for that Raffles, just have to translate all that into Greek, and "Costas is your uncle", as they say!
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[stevo as b4]

The only problem with everyone going onto fibre for everything, is the all the eggs in one basket situation. Fibre is more reliable than copper, and has many advantages. But I can assure you there are some parts of the uk Fibre network that are in a terrible state and very fragile. Fibre does go brittle with age and even heavy traffic or vibrations can be enough to break old fragile fibre cables.

Also yes you sometimes stop theft of cable with fibre, if the would be thieves know it's fibre cable that is? But you wont stop cable's being chopped for break-ins, or things like rodents chewing through the cables, or JCB diggers pulling them out of the ground by stupid road works firms etc