Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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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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.