Yes indeed. I do find quite a bit of irony in the fact that they go around lashing their fiber cables onto existing copper ones in order to capitalize on the existing support strand and hardware. By doing so, they are pretty much stuck with that copper forever unless they want to go back later and take everything down and then re-lash the fiber.

I was looking at another forum and a CATV installer was asking the same question about abandoned telephone drops and hardware. He said that he'll often trim back obviously dead wiring while he is up a pole, but he can't seem to understand why he's the only person who sees this as an issue,

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX