Germanium and Telecommunications

Telecommunications depends on germanium.

Germanium (commodity) and Telecommunications (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Germanium → Telecommunications

2 of the enterprise types in Telecommunications depend on germanium; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

Subsea cable builders and consortia: fibre core (criticality 4 of 5)
Optical fibre and cable makers: germanium tetrachloride dopes the fibre core (criticality 3 of 5)

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