Cable One, Inc. (CABO)

Cable broadband provider, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 37 of the 51 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 2,592 full-time and part-time associates at December 31, 2025 and describes one broadband service business with no count by function, so the whole workforce is read at telecommunications by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 40% now, 48% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 20% people work and 29% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

2,592 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes a cable broadband provider in U.S. markets with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and nothing abroad; recorded as 1 without a stated figure, flagged.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 2,592 full-time and part-time associates, compared to 2,817 full-time and part-time associates at December 31, 2024.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,592 full-time and part-time associates at December 31, 2025, down from 2,817 a year earlier; none represented by a union; average associate tenure about 10 years; a Culture Captain Program of more than 60 associates.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Telecommunications, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Comcast (CMCSA, 179,000 employees)38% now, 49% by 2028
• AT&T (T, 133,030 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR, 91,900 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Verizon (VZ, 89,900 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS, 75,000 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN, 24,000 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
• Liberty Latin America Ltd. (LILA, 9,000 employees)41% now, 52% by 2028
• Uniti Group Inc. (UNIT, 8,632 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it supplements its industrial engineering framework with digital transformation and AI initiatives and implemented a unified call center platform powered by AI that uses machine learning and analytics to optimize call routing and give associates real-time insights.

• “Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in our forward-looking statements include government regulation, economic, strategic, political and social conditions and the following factors: rising levels of competition from historical and new entrants in our markets; recent and future changes in technology, and our ability to develop, deploy and operate...”
• “Through the use of an industrial engineering framework and agile mindset, supplemented by digital transformation and AI initiatives, we are able to quickly and effectively react to developments in our markets and implement new initiatives to maximize our operating performance and efficiently expand our network and market share over the long term.”
• “For example, we implemented a unified call center platform powered by AI, enhancing the way we support and engage with our customers by leveraging advanced machine learning and analytics to optimize call routing, provide real-time insights to associates and improve overall service efficiency.”
• “Additionally, we have rolled out an AI-powered assistant that not only handles tasks typically managed by our field technicians, like contacting customers with appointment windows and rescheduling as necessary, but also provides our technicians with AI-driven technical expertise to help diagnose and resolve issues more quickly.”
• “Rather than increasing our size and seeking cost savings through economies-of-scale, we have achieved our lower cost structure over many years by focusing on: serving primarily non-metropolitan, secondary and tertiary markets, which contain different customer dynamics from those in metropolitan markets and would require us to implement additional operational components; implementing a virtually...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20249median 4
• Fiscal 202513median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The collector's pick, 2,817, is the prior year's count named in the same sentence; the filing states 2,592 at December 31, 2025 (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. operations, without stating it.
• No count by function; one pattern by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001632127-26-000005, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.