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Article: Pole attachments: what some may call a nuisance are worth your time and attention.
- Article from:
- Management Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
- Author:
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Given the complexity of the legal and regulatory issues affecting pole attachments and the uncertainty of pole attachment cost recovery, it is little wonder that many electric cooperatives across the country have struggled with how best to manage the pole attachment activities of cable operators, telecommunications companies and others seeking to use the assets of the cooperative distribution network.
Yet with one in five electric cooperative utility poles now hosting an attachment, renewed care must be devoted to managing these vital distribution assets.
Many cooperatives, like their investor-owned brethren, have historically treated pole attachments as ...