The phrase "abandoned cable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a cable that has been left behind or is no longer in use, often in contexts related to technology, telecommunications, or infrastructure.
Example: "The construction crew discovered an abandoned cable while digging up the old road."
Alternatives: "discarded cable" or "unused cable".
The other cities eventually abandoned cable cars, but San Francisco has stubbornly clung to the picturesque if archaic, and sometimes dangerous, means of negotiating the hills.
In Q2 for the industry overall, a record 711,000 subscribers abandoned cable tv, and six of eight operators suffered their worst quarterly subscriber losses ever.
It's the roughly 25-million U.S. households that have abandoned cable and satellite services, or never signed up in the first place (more on that in a bit).
But there's a growing population, estimated to number in the millions, of "cord cutters," people who abandoned cable to watch television via over-the-air broadcasts, a high-speed Internet connection or a combination of the two.
The mall is plagued with empty stores, stacked boxes and abandoned cables.
Mr. Terrill says the company plans to reach a wider audience by increasing its television network presence but not abandoning cable, where it has been a staple.
As CBS and Time Warner Cable remain locked in a three-week battle over retransmission fees, you have to wonder when their millions of viewers will throw in the towel and abandon cable altogether.
The stockholders bought it for $960, reopened it as the West Side Patented Highway, abandoned the cable system and installed wood-burning locomotives.
Most phone companies have abandoned their cable efforts, while the few entrepreneurs who survive have lowered their ambitions.
Many of those customers abandoned the cable operator after a protracted fight with CBS Corp., in which the most-watched broadcast network was not available to many Time Warner Cable customers for a month.
A few hundred metres beyond the shuttered Fufeng complex, the premises of another company, China Metallurgical Hengtong Cold Rolled Technology, also lies abandoned, electricity cables drooping on to a corrugated iron fence blocking its unused entrance.
