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Steel and Telecommunications

Telecommunications depends on steel.

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

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Steel → Telecommunications

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

  • 3 enterprise types depend on it
  • 4 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Subsea cable builders and consortia: armour wires (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Optical fibre and cable makers: armouring (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Tower and passive-infrastructure companies: towers (criticality 3 of 5)

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