Why telecom equipments work in negative

voltage?

To prevent the equipments from lightning strokes. Because the cloud is negatively charged at bottom it requires a
zero or a positive potential to discharge, and it selects the ground (Zero potential) to discharge. If the Telecom
Equipments are fed with positive the cloud will choose the low resistance tallest positively charged Antenna's to
discharge, this could damage the entire setup of Telecom equipments. So the Telecom equipments are fed with
Negative supply Voltage.

IEEE standard
Reasons
1) Answer for -ve voltages is cathodic protection. This practice is not only used in telecom
but also in different industries, pipelines oil rings, ships etc
2) Going back to basics, current is the flow of electrons and not protons and -ve voltages just
tell us that we have made +ve terminal as reference or ground. So +ve voltages should be
more astonishing to us than -ve voltages. This helps us in noise reduction as compared to
+ve or floating voltages.
3) Mostly DC loads have a battery backup and batteries are usually manufactured in
multiples of 12V(2V*6 lead acid cells). So 48V is also IEEE compliant standard used in almost
every industry.