[Hivolt]

Originally Posted by longislander

At least make it intelligible.



Does that mean ... telephone or cable or electric; presumably cables (3)?

Or, is it telephone cable and electric? You said third party. I'm going to presume cable companies like Spectrum. Spectrum plus telephone plus electric make three types of cable; not all fiber.

There are three types of telephone cable at the poles on the street. The big bulky outside plant cable (e.g. 1800 pair, 2200 pair etc), telephone company fiber wire strapped to the outside plant, and then the "cable" that goes to the house from the street pole.

That makes four types of cable, from three businesses.

The three cables on the pole near my house have electric at top, Spectrum in the middle, and telephone (not outside plant) at the bottom on the two poles. The street poles always have the "outside plant" at the bottom and electric at the top, and Spectrum fiber and telephone fiber in the middle.

You said this:



I'm going to presume, now, you didn't mean higher than electric.

Co-ownership of the poles may not be accurate, although there are legal issues that do come into play.



I've already stated the electric, phone, and the non-internet part of cable companies, are regulated. Following the regulations should be a no-brainer.



No, I was not a lineman. I did interface with linemen almost daily, however.

I was hired by the phone company at age fifty. I considered myself semi-retired. My background and work experience, was in what was considered high-tech years ago. 18 years at Wang Laboratories , a computer company; then went to a small phone company parts manufacturer and became plant manager; when Plantronics sold the company, went to and managed a small manufacturing company that produced scanners, in the Atlanta area. Subsequently pursued self-employment. After about five years of that, went to phone company.

In my youth before the previous work history, I was school trained by the U.S. Army in Avionics (1966). Used that training and more, in Vietnam, from May 1967 to Feb. 1969 on UH-1 helicopters, as well as door-gunner (189th Assault Helicopter Company). Came back stateside and thereafter went to work for for Wang; see above.

I used the G.I. bill and got three degrees in business, including MBA. I'm also a college level certified paralegal.

So you were management at the phone company for a brief period in your career, ok this certainly answers many of my questions...

Well as a current industry professional I can say for certain the issue at hand is money here. I deal first hand with upgrades on our (the electric companies) end at least every 2 months, It's time consuming and expensive and we are generally only dealing with very small areas IE a few city blocks.

For anyone that did or does care about the politics at hand here I mostly covered them in my first two posts but I'd be happy to answer any questions outside of the noise of this thread.