A laid cable configuration contains cables, preferably electric cables, data and information transport cables and/or control cables, in particular fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes and is to be disposed in galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, channels or the like, in particular water and/or waste-water guiding systems. The configuration contains at least one cable which is to be laid, which can be unwound from a drum from the region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward the respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe, channel or the like. The configuration includes a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having lateral edges that are laid against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel. A weighting body is suspended from the carrier band.