Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.

“Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.” is a core task performed by Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 20th by importance (#1 most important). About 79% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Test performance of equipment or systems. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. in Handling and Moving Objects
• Install commercial or production equipment. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Explain cable service to subscribers after installation, and collect any installation fees due. · importance 4.4
• Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories. · importance 4.3
• Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment. · importance 4.2
• Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions. · importance 4.2
• Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment. · importance 4.2
• Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces. · importance 4.1
• Place insulation over conductors, or seal splices with moisture-proof covering. · importance 4.0
• String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension. · importance 3.9
• Clean or maintain tools or test equipment. · importance 3.9
• Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels. · importance 3.9
• Install equipment such as amplifiers or repeaters to maintain the strength of communications transmissions. · importance 3.7
• Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches. · importance 3.7
• Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks. · importance 3.7
• Use a variety of construction equipment to complete installations, such as digger derricks, trenchers, or cable plows. · importance 3.5

See all tasks on the Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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