This is a thread jack question, but I have always wondered in the case of a municipal/regional/co-op utility, does the telephone company still own the poles as they usually do?
Here in NA and I think other local Dept's you will find a mix of Tel Co and Municipal owned poles. I have no idea how that evolved.
I know when the local power company installed new taller poles so they could add more high voltage circuits above it literally took years for the Telephone company to come out and shift their cables over to the new poles.
