I'd noticed that I've  never seen a power pole on a TV show set in the UK.  I can't help wondering if the wooden power poles that are nearly ubiquitous in US neighbrhoods have ever been used in Britain? The ones on my street carry power (both distribution and delivery voltages along with the occasional transformer), copper telephone, 2 different fiber optic systems along with their "copper to the house" and very rarely a WiFi antenna on top. It's not as bad as pictures I've seen from 100+ years ago but it's a real mess.,(reply>), Here in Philadelphia only the very center of the city has no telegraph poles. When cable TV was wiring the city it was the last area to get done. The politicians and shopkeepers held it up for nearly 10 years into the mid 90's. They didn't want access to stores and attractions blocked by the digging.,(reply>), +RMoribayashi Wooden poles are found everywhere outside towns to carry electricity, but inside towns the electric cables are always buried. Inside towns, wooden poles may be found in older neighbourhoods to carry telephone wires (telegraph poles), but anything built in recent decades has the telephone wires buried too.,(reply>), +RMoribayashi we've just got the two style of poles, the ones with the steps out the side are just for the telephone and the danger of death usually carry both telephone and power lines...occasionally you will get the more complicated versions further out (transformers)