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.

“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.” is a core task performed by Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#7 most important). About 93% 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.

• Climb equipment or structures. in Performing General Physical Activities

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

• Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment. · importance 4.4
• 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
• 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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  title  = {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.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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