BT telegraph poles - do they all have to be earthed/have lightening conductors?

lovelyjubbly

Hoping there is a bt engineer out there that will read this, can you tell me of all bt telegraph poles have to have lightening conductors/earths on them?

Farway

If your burnt out phone was lightening strike, then it may not have been a phone pole that was hit

lovelyjubbly

Hi Farway,
the reason I was asking the question was that when the BT engineer came to replace our phone socket he looked at the poles outside and said they should have had lightening conductors on, only the one directly outside our house had one and none of the ones up the road did, he then said as long as every third or fourth one had a conductor on it was ok, but I have walked up the road and cant see one on any other than the one on our pole