Fiber & Telecom Installation

Your Trucks Are Rolling Warehouses With No Inventory System

Parts disappear from trucks, techs make extra supply runs, and no one knows what's on which vehicle until it's too late.

Uncle Steve on inventory & parts tracking in fiber & telecom installation

The Fiber & Telecom Installation Industry at a Glance

Fiber optic and telecommunications line construction — underground cable laying, conduit installation, and fiber-to-the-home buildouts.

3,400+

US Companies

$5M–$50M

Avg. Revenue

10–50

Field Crew Size

12.4%

Growth Rate

Hundreds of tickets per mile, status tracked in spreadsheets, placement logs on paper. Telecom is the most damaged underground utility.

Fiber & Telecom Installation Industry Data & Research

Key statistics shaping the fiber & telecom installation market today.

Telecom/fiber is the #1 damaged underground facility type — ~50% of all incidents
CGA DIRT Report, 2024
BEAD Act is pushing $42.5 billion into broadband/fiber buildout
NTIA, 2024

Does This Sound Like Your Fiber & Telecom Installation Operation?

  • !Techs make supply house runs mid-job
  • !Parts shrinkage on service trucks
  • !No idea what inventory is on which vehicle

The Cost of Doing Nothing

Untracked truck inventory leads to 8–15% parts shrinkage and 2+ hours/week of wasted drive time per tech.

What Fiber & Telecom Installation Companies Typically Use

BOSS811UtilocateProcoreTrimble

These tools are great at what they do — but they don't eliminate the inventory & parts tracking gap. That's what we build.

Fiber & Telecom Installation Operational Challenges

  • 1Telecom is the #1 damaged underground facility type (~50% of incidents)
  • 2Hundreds of locate tickets per mile of fiber build
  • 3GIS as-built updates lag weeks behind actual construction
  • 4BEAD Act pushing $42.5B into broadband

Compliance & Regulations

  • A811 mandatory notification before excavation
  • BState-specific locate ticket validity (10–45 days)
  • CFCC broadband deployment documentation
  • DBEAD Act compliance and reporting requirements
Common roles:Project ManagerConstruction ManagerSplicerForeman

How We Fix Inventory & Parts Tracking for Fiber & Telecom Installation — No ReKeying

1

Map Your Workflow

We study exactly where inventory & parts tracking happens in your fiber & telecom installation operation — the forms, the handoffs, the re-entry points.

2

Build a Working Prototype

Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A real, functional prototype that eliminates the pain point and works with your existing tools.

3

Prove It Before You Pay

You test the prototype on a real job. If it doesn't eliminate the inventory & parts tracking problem, you don't pay.

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