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Electrical equipment and Telecommunications

Telecommunications buys from Electrical equipment; telecommunications depends on electrical equipment.

Electrical equipment (industry) and Telecommunications (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1.9 per ₹100 · Telecommunications buys from Electrical equipment

Telecommunications buys goods or services from Electrical equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹1.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹1.9 of every ₹100 of Telecommunications output, all rounds
  • ₹1.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Electrical equipment → Telecommunications

3 of the enterprise types in Telecommunications depend on electrical equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Subsea cable builders and consortia: power feed equipment (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Mobile and broadband operators: power plant in exchanges (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Tower and passive-infrastructure companies: rectifiers, batteries and gensets (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.