Does a telephone pole carry electricity to a Computer?
Yes and no. First, a history on poles. The reason we call them
telephone poles is they were first used and paralleled train tracks
and were called telegraph poles. This was pre 1900. Since then,
electricity or power lines were strung up on these same poles and
power poles, which are owned by the power company. If a pole has
both power and telephone on them, they are called joint-use poles
and utility companies that own the poles can charge other utilities
to use them for a yearly fee per pole. Nowadays, most poles are
joint use and carry power, telephone and cable television on them
and unless your power is fed by underground or buried power lines,
your computer gets the power it needs from these type poles. The
exception to this is a battery powered laptop, but these still get
recharged by the same source.