Favrion@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoWhat do you call this place?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1252arrow-down1imageWhat do you call this place?lemmy.worldFavrion@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 months agoSimilarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
minus-squareGONADS125@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoI call them that sometimes, but mostly just “power lines.”
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoUtility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
I call them that sometimes, but mostly just “power lines.”
Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.