Reno has a good point. The cables abandoned by the old cable company are probably still the property of that company but they don't want it and I bet, without legislation requiring it, they are not coming back to pull them out.
When I asked Comcast about the existing cables on my house they said they were leaving them "for my convenience" in case I went back to them. No they were not sending a tech out to take them down.
I bet if I hooked up a couple TVs to the raw cable, they would be over here right away. (the Dmark is disabled by software but everything is still connected). I am thinking about cutting the drop as far up as I can reach and letting them deal with the "ingress" problems.
