In article .com,
DrFish wrote:
We have 4 small white boxes on the lounge skirting board with a few
cables in some of them. Doesn't look like the phone or mains cable.

What does the cable look like? Alarm cable is pretty similar to phone
cable at a glance. Perhaps you could describe it - diameter etc and say
what the colours on the conductors insulation are? Although WTF anyone
would put junction boxes on the skirting for *anything* escapes me...
And where the cables seem to go to?

Can't seem to find what they are for anywhere on the web. My
father-in-law who is a DIY enthusiast had no idea either.

In case it helps the house is about 8 years old.

Unlikely to be anything to do with phones, then.

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