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