They had wires to any house that had paid to have it connected. I was 7 before we had a phone in the house, and they had to wire us up when that happened. My c

They had wires to any house that had paid to have it connected. I was 7 before we had a phone in the house, and they had to wire us up when that happened. My current house had BT at some point (there's a BT access box in a cupboard, but it's not connected to anything), but it was gone before I moved in - I'm guessing either as a result of some roadworks having cut through the wires or possibly a BT upgrade of their infrastructure, but as the people who lived there before me were on what was Diamond Cable at the time, BT clearly didn't bother doing whatever was involved in rewiring the house back in.