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Originally Posted by jb66
If it was through the phoneline it would be melted also
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That's a point, you'd think that if a power surge occurred on the phone line network that it would never reach a customers home as the wiring would melt long before as it's not designed for high voltages.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
No.
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Why do you say that Hugh?
If there was, say, a lightening strike, wouldn't it melt the Openreach infrastructure before ever getting to the customers home?
I remember that the cable network in the ROI once had problems with something similar though, so (NTL I think) offloaded it.