Re: [telecom] Joint utility poles (was Re: Technical Demo turns political...) [Telecom]

>Neal McLa> It is *VERY* rare to see power piggy-backed onto phone company poles

> -- in part for the first two reasons mentioned above, and because > power distribution requires considerably sturdier footing than just > phone does.

This is simply not correct. The agreements between power companies and telephone companies provide that each company pays rent for using the other's poles. In practical terms, they try to keep the ownership about equal - half telco, half power company to simplify bookkeeping by, as near as possible, cancelling out rental payments to one or the other. In some cases this will mean the telco may own a pole used only by the power company, or the power company owns a pole used only by the telco.

Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

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