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Telephone poles: Telephones lines only?
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<P>Tom,</P> <P>Seems really strange to me that they would string power and phone lines on the same poles. However, there are enough people say they did it so who am I to doubt?</P> <P>It is a commercial thing that I wonder about. The power company owns the power lines and the phone company the phone lines. Who owns the poles? Or do they share the cost of poles?</P> <P>And then there is the safety and public liability issue. Power lines are sort of nasty. Phone lines are pretty innocuous by comparison. Seems to be a fertile field for litigation if something goes wrong with a joint facility.</P> <P>However, there are plenty say that the various lines were carried on the same poles, so they must have got over those concerns.</P> <P> </P>
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