Opportunities should be best for applicants with electronics training and computer skills. Top Telephones and radios depend on a variety of equipment to transmit communications signals.
Electronic switches route telephone signals to their destinations.
Switchboards direct telephone calls within a single location or organization. Radio transmitters and receivers relay signals from wireless phones and radios to their destinations. Newer telecommunications equipment is computerized and can communicate a variety of information, including data, graphics, and video. The workers who set up and maintain this sophisticated equipment are telecommunications equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers. Central office installers set up switches, cables, and other equipment in telephone central offices.