[AFMUG] Adding poles - dumb question

[Adam Moffett]

I want to run fiber down a road where there's a gap in the existing 
poles.  The power company feeds the road from opposite directions, which 
I can't do.  We looked at underground vs adding our own poles in the 
gap, and adding poles wins by a huge margin.

We were going to do 30' poles because they're cheap and I don't need to 
carry a power line.  However, the pole contractor I talked to believes 
that the power company has some kind of rights regarding aerial wires, 
and he thinks they could somehow compel us to install 50' poles so they 
could add electric onto them later.  Is this guy a nut?  It sounds 
unbelievable, but this guy has been installing poles for decades so he 
might be one to know.

-Adam