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Machinery and equipment and Telecommunications

Telecommunications buys from Machinery and equipment; telecommunications depends on machinery and equipment.

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

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.9 per ₹100 · Telecommunications buys from Machinery and equipment

Telecommunications buys goods or services from Machinery and equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.9 of every ₹100 of Telecommunications output, all rounds
  • ₹0.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 2 of 5 · Machinery and equipment → Telecommunications

1 of the enterprise types in Telecommunications depend on machinery and equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Network construction and fibre-rollout contractors: trenchers and drilling rigs (criticality 2 of 5)

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