Maybe a breakdown on your end. I'm well aware of what's on top of the pole, I work with it daily. Perhaps I was too verbose in my last post so I will simplify for you.
1) Of course no lines would be moved, you've just added a house and the phone and cable company came out, tapped their lines and ran it up your driveway.
2)Third party additions to the pole (third party being someone other than telephone cable and electric) will almost always require the electric company to move at a bare minimum their secondary wires to comply with minimum approach distance (google minimum approach distance, OSHA has a whole section on it). If moving our secondaries breaks our minimum approach requirements to the primary than a new pole or a pole top extension will need to be set/installed
3) You worked at the phone company, you were the lowest wires on the pole, you would have nothing to do with what I described unless you were too high to begin with.
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4. Who pays for it is cut and dry, 100% is billed to the company requesting the work to be done. Period.
And last, what was your job at the phone company? It doesn't sound like you were a lineman there.
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Originally Posted by longislander
Maybe there's a communication breakdown. The electric lines are on top ... period. Go out and look at the poles outside your house, including through the insulators. It's easy to tell which is electric, look for attached to the transformer. New install here at the new house, is electric on top, and cable and phone below.
No lines were moved, but added at my house. I believe the same holds true for all of Moultonborough Neck Rd, a state road. The same held true when I worked for the phone company for 17 years.
Separate companies doing their separate businesses. Regulated by state and federal regulations. Exception is cable companies whereby "cable" is regulated
but internet is not ... at this time. FCC gives guidance.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/...C-III-53-C.htm
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