On 5 Apr 2005 10:18:16 -0700, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Robert Swinney says...

Jim, I don't think you are referring to old fashioned "grounded" single wire
(literally one wire) telephone service.

That's what they had up the canyon I think. Everyone was on one
line. A pretty remote area. I don't think it was fence wire
though, it was copper.

Jim

I've seen something like that in far west Texas, near London. There
were glass insulators spiked in the top of fence posts.

Pete Keillor