When you cancel a cable tv subscription, is the cable box you plug into your TV being disabled, or is it the signal to the wires in your walls?

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Context: my apartment building used to provide basic cable to all the residents, and we had cable boxes in our apartments as well as in the lounge spaces in the main office building. They discontinued the service for residents and we had to turn in our boxes, but the tvs in the lounge space still have cable boxes and get those channels.

If I bring a cable box from a friend’s place and plug it into my wall in my apartment, will I have cable again?

I guess what I’m asking is, does the service really come from the box or from the cables in the wall?

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Its the cable signal outside in the “hot box” you see, those brown, sometimes green locked boxes. Thats what enables and disables services. Techs just go in, see which unit / house is yours and flicks a switch.

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