§ 233 Telephone Line Definition

• •Telephone lines include everything used for phone calls, like wires, poles, and cables.
• •It also covers things like tools and equipment that help phones work.
• •This applies to all phone communication, even if it doesn’t use wires (like wireless calls).

If someone cuts a wire on a telephone pole while fixing something nearby.

This law says that wire is part of the telephone line, so damaging it could be breaking the rules about phone equipment.