Lineman jobs for cell phone companies

Companies like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint will often recruit for line technicians or lineman to work on their fiber or telecom lines. It is important to differentiate that these are not traditional line jobs as they are not working on transmission or distribution power lines. Lineman that work for cell companies must be able to perform both aerial and underground fiber installation work and splice fiber. When taking a job for a company like AT&T you will be tasks to do work such as place aerial and underground copper and fiber cable, perform various jobs with copper splicing and assist in fiber splicing, perform construction work such as digging holes, placing cable, air pipe and inner duct in various types of conduit systems and open excavations and work with heavy duty power equipment and small tools in the installation, repair and maintenance of outside plant facilities.