NACE Class 61.1 - Wired telecommunications activities

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Wired telecommunications activities class

Description

This class includes:

  • operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a wired telecommunications infrastructure, including:
    • operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide point-to-point communications via
    • landlines, microwave or a combination of landlines and satellite linkups
    • operating of cable distribution systems (e.g. for distribution of data and television signals)
    • furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities

The transmission facilities that carry out these activities, may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.

This class also includes:

  • purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications services using this capacity to businesses and households
  • provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure

This class excludes:

  • telecommunications resellers, see 61.90


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