What are some good data sources for electric utilities and fiber optics in the USA/Texas?

[JohnFell]

As an assessment jurisdiction our business and personal property appraisers need information to make estimations of value for public utilities such as electricity. What are some vector data sources that you turn to for electric utility lines? Do you have to contact the municipality/public works department for that? I was curious if there was any regional or national agency that had oversight for this sort of resource that could provide it with a fairly short update cycle. Fiber optic network data would also be beneficial.

[SpatialNinja · Accepted solution]

John,

From the fiber side of things, most companies themselves are don't know where they have fiber, surprisingly.

The only commercial source for fiber data which I am aware of is GeoTel: www.geo-tel.com

The FCC also collects service territories from telecoms if you just need to know what services are offered in a certain area, but I am not sure how publicly available they make that data.

-Patrick