More than a year later, Mr. Teger has not been able to resume work as a telephone installer.

But after going bankrupt last year, the 51-year-old telephone installer and repairman said he had simple plans for the fat check sitting in his bank account.

James Grande, 28, a telephone installer in Brooklyn, said he had not had any trouble because of tattoos.

"How much did the telephone installers see?"

As a political refugee in France, he began working in 1977 as a telephone installer, while pursuing his higher education.

She enrolled in a high school equivalency diploma course and hopes to become a telephone installer.

John Williams, a telephone installer, came by on his lunch hour.

But even then, some cellular telephone installers may have crooked employees.

In some communities, unused X-1-1 codes were assigned as plant test numbers for telephone installers testing individual lines.

The conversion package sells for $300 and is available through car audio and telephone installers.