The guys, who removed the telephone poles and the wires in these parts, mentioned they paid the local power utility around 40€ per year for each single pole sha

The guys, who removed the telephone poles and the wires in these parts, mentioned they paid the local power utility around 40€ per year for each single pole shared with power lines. Mind you, we're talking (mostly) disused old copper wires, with signal quality too poor to deliver more than a few mbps over ADSL, and most of the country is covered by a very well-built 4G network delivering 10+ mbps pretty much everywhere. I agree it's sad to see working infrastructure being taken down, but everything was privatized in the 90's/00's and the new network owners have no incentive to keep paying for its upkeep.