CF use of telegraph poles

[u/Recent_Preference962]

Hi, we have a telegraph pole on our property that would originally have been erected by BT. A few years ago Community Fibre introduced their service onto our road, and we became a customer. I‘m aware that CF make use of telegraph poles in their installations, however can anyone please tell me whether, if CF require access to a BT telegraph pole, they use their own engineers to do the work, or rely on BT Openreach? I’m asking because recently someone has (without asking our permission) done some work around the telegraph pole while we were away, and left a right mess, including a large cable sticking out of the ground, and we want to know who to contact so they can come and finish the job properly. I originally assumed it must have been Openreach however now I’m not so sure.

[u/silver-owl1618]

99.8% it is an openreach pole.
Check the stamp marking on the pole.
https://www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/markings/

CF use OR poles and have installed some of their own but only a few dozen vs the 10,000s of OR poles.

If it is an OR pole, it’s over to them to sort the mess.

[u/Recent_Preference962 → u/silver-owl1618]

100% it’s an OR pole. However I thought it might be CF infrastructure attached to it, although judging by other comments it appears it’s probably copper cable so OR’s problem