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Metal products and Telecommunications

Telecommunications buys from Metal products; telecommunications depends on metal products.

Metal products (industry) and Telecommunications (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.8 per ₹100 · Telecommunications buys from Metal products

Telecommunications buys goods or services from Metal products; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.8 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.8 of every ₹100 of Telecommunications output, all rounds
  • ₹0.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Metal products → Telecommunications

2 of the enterprise types in Telecommunications depend on metal products.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Optical fibre and cable makers: armour and strength members (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Tower and passive-infrastructure companies: fabricated tower steel (criticality 3 of 5)

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