[Tagging] Telephone poles and lines?

[Philip Barnes]

On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 08:48 +1000, Warin wrote:
> Around me, the 'poles' carry;
> 
> power,
> 
> cable internet,
> 
> cable TV (some times the cable carries both TV and internet combined)
> and
> 
> telephone.
> 
> The don't usually have poles for each service.

The presence of poles is very dependent on the age of the development,
the visible power poles are those crossing fields carrying electricity
at distribution voltages across fields (air is a cheap insulator).

Generally poles exist in areas built before electricity or phones were
the norm. When I go into the old town I will be looking for power
poles.

Telephone poles are a feature of areas built in the 1960s, and before.

The area I live in is a late 1970s and there are no poles, services
were installed underground at the time of construction. When FTTC
arrived the fibres were pulled through the existing ducts and new
cabinets installed next to the old ones.

Overhead cabling and poles would not be acceptable in any area built
since the late 1970s.

Phil (trigpoint)