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Can I just cut the ones I don't want?
The previous owners have fitted a phone socket in every room and we don't want/need them. There's cables all over the place on the outside and random sockets on the inside.
I've found the main one into the house so know which one not to cut..
In a word....yes.
It'd be a neater job if you open the socket and disconnect the wires internally though.
One that's done, burn off the insulation and flog the copper down at the recycling place.
The master socket is the demarcation point between what's yours and what's BT's. Anything after it, you can do what you want, anything before it is illegal to mess with.
If you don't have a master socket, that's slightly more complicated.
Is it really illegal? There is a BT socket in my hallway which I’m going to cut the wires inside and fit a blanking plate. I don't want a BT line and it’s my flat (I have virgin media cable as BT could only offer 6MB despite being in zone 3 london)
Tampering with the phone system is illegal, yes.
If you're cutting wires inside a BT socket, I'd guess it's either not a master socket or not a modern NTE5. A modern master socket has a split faceplate, you can remove the bottom half to wire extensions etc, but the top half is BT's property.
Openreach not BT maintain the network and really don't gaf. I've cut shit loads down in the past then denied any knowledge.