Sky installers are a bunch of twunts with stuff like that...
years ago when my dad first got it they would not leave the house until the box was connected to a phone line "to complete the setup process". The nearest one was in the hall so my dad got a long phone cable and connected it:

"no mate it has to be permanently connected, and for health and safety reasons we can't let you run that cable across the floor. We will have to rail it along your skirting boards etc, it will cost you 30 quid like"

There were several loud words shouted such as cunts, bastards etc followed by the phrase "get the fuck out of my house before that satellite dish is embedded wholly into your arse"

So i agree with your moral stance.
( Bamboo Steamer, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 13:25, 1 reply)

my installers
were great.
I didn't want the phone line thing, either (TV in one room, phone socket in hallway) and they were quite happy to let me use a temp connection if and when I ever needed it (never have).

I'm not quite as anal as the rest of you about hiding cables, but I'm really pleased that whoever built my house in 1930 had the foresight to put a little rail around the walls that I could tack my 5.1 cables to.....
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 13:30, closed)

Mine have been mixed
Three out of the four engineers we have had have been really helpful, one tried but was clearly a bit new! On the telephone thing the new Sky+HD boxes check for the line periodically (I believe) so you need a permanent line. I got one of those plugin radio phone line extender and it did the job perfectly.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 14:18, closed)