"Dave Holland" wrote
| No-one wrote:
| A number of years ago I laughed at a colleague who wanted the
| master upstairs for just such a reason. I found myself apologising
| to him when I read, within a week of our conversation, of a burglary
| where the telephone lines had been cut in just such a manner at
| ground level where it entered the house.
| The phone line enters my house from underground within the house
| boundary (the linebox is on an internal wall). Is that relatively rare?

It's normal on new build estates where poles and overhead wiring are
disliked.

Owain