Over here the guy wire comes out a bit lower down the pole and goes out at a much wider angle than that.
In some mountainous areas it may be more than one wire too.
It's very rare to see a crooked electricity pole, however, the old wooden telephone poles here are being very badly maintained by eircom since privatisation.
They've their multicore distribution cables strung along them in rural areas and in some remote spots the poles are quite litterally falling apart.
Back in the 1970s & 1980s (pre-privatisation) they dug trenches and layed ducts along the edges of fields (i.e. beside the "ditch") and these carry optic fibers as well as bundles of phonelines. The overhead stuff generally only carrys smaller bundles of pairs out to customers and to be fair, despite the fact that it's strung along rather loosely, it doesn't seem to cause any faults.
I just think it's a pity to see the old poles deteroriate and be replaced by steel. The wooden ones look much nicer and are more sympathetic to their sorroundings.
