^^ correct. unless the box is provisioned in the billing system, responding to/communicating with the headend equipment (needs to in order to obtain an IP address, 2-way communication), and also to unencrypt the digital channels, without that you've got nada.
"I talked to a technician and was told normally there will always be a signal at the cable outlet unless they unhook the cable at the pole. Most of the time they don't. "
if you can get channels in a dwelling that's supposed to be "off", someone is not doing their job. it's either supposed to be disco'd at the pole, or, in the case of multi family units (apartments etc), all the outlets are run to lock boxes fed by 1 or more drops from the pole. inactive accounts are disco'd in the lock box in these cases. or at lease they're supposed to be...
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