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> I have a pole in front of my house that just serves me and my neighbor

Hah. We live in veeeeery different housing densities I guess. I was thinking this was NYC, which would be closer to mine. If it's the whole state then probably somewhere in between.

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Some reasonable sources [0] put the number of telephone poles in the US (175m) a little above the number of households (125m).

[0] https://www.srperspective.com/post/telephone-poles-a-high-wi...

Check out this fun map curtesy of NYC who do a pretty good job exposing a lot of these type of data https://maps.nyc.gov/sandbox/poletop-finder/

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