Remove telephone line yourself?

Hi.

I am Matthias and come from the Upper Palatinate.
My girlfriend and I want to build a new house. We already have the plot, there is still an old house on it.
Now to my question.
Am I allowed to dig up the telephone line myself and move it aside, or should I have Telekom do it.
According to Telekom, they have to do it because the APL is being removed and a new one installed in the new building. They want 800€ from me for that.

Unfortunately, I am still a bit new in this area.
I hope you can help me with this.

Thanks
Regards Matthias

That belongs to them. Hands off.

Will Telekom have anything against it

Hello,
at our demolition site, it was unknowingly cut during preparatory measures. It was located directly under paving slabs that we removed ourselves. However, was the cable properly installed? Under the paving slabs there was a sand layer of max. 10 cm, then a layer of cast concrete without reinforcement. The telephone cable was lying between the paving slabs and the concrete layer without any special marking in the thin sand layer. Our demolition contractor said that it happens more often that the cable gets cut (also because Telekom sometimes takes months to dismantle the connection!).
But it is still not allowed!
How it will continue with us? We are curious as well. I can report in the summer.
Regards, Daniel

Hello

I dug all the trenches for the supply (electricity, telephone, and water) myself. No subcontractor had to come with the excavator, whom I had to pay. I would carefully dig out the telephone line and lay it somewhere protected. The telephone company can cap it when they lay the new line. Who should have anything against that? And why? On my property, I dig as much as I want.

Steven

Hello

I dug all the trenches for the utilities (electricity, telephone, and water) myself. No subcontractor had to come with the excavator that I had to pay.
I would carefully excavate the telephone line and place it somewhere protected. The telephone company can cap it when they lay the new line. Who should have an issue with that? And why? On my property, I dig as much as I want.

Steven

I can basically understand you, but the telephone lines or coax lines of the cable networks are measured in by the respective provider (and are their property). So it should be reported before the construction project that these are to be dismantled.

@Nordly: I consider a new connection including the dismantling of the old one for €800 reasonable and not excessive.