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Media and entertainment and Telecommunications

Media and entertainment buys from Telecommunications; media and entertainment depends on telecommunications.

Media and entertainment (industry) and Telecommunications (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹2.5 per ₹100 · Media and entertainment buys from Telecommunications

Media and entertainment buys goods or services from Telecommunications; counted through every round of supply, ₹2.5 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹2.5 of every ₹100 of Media and entertainment output, all rounds
  • ₹1.5 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Telecommunications → Media and entertainment

3 of the enterprise types in Media and entertainment depend on telecommunications.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Streaming video and audio platforms: broadband and mobile delivery (criticality 4 of 5)
  • TV broadcasters and networks: satellite and cable carriage (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Content delivery networks and media cloud: peering and backbone (criticality 3 of 5)

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