Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels.

“Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels.” is a supplemental task performed by Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#11 most important). About 52% 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.

• Determine resource needs of projects or operations. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

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 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

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
• 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
• 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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “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  = {Compute impedance of wires from poles to houses to determine additional resistance needed for reducing signals to desired levels.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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