611000 Wired telecommunications activities

This type includes:

• operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a wired telecommunications infrastructure, including:
• operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide point-to-point communications via landlines, microwave or a combination of landlines and satellite linkups
• operating of cable distribution systems (e.g. for distribution of data and television signals)
• furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities

The transmission facilities that carry out these activities, may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.

This type also includes:

• purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications services using this capacity to businesses and households
• provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure

This type excludes:

• telecommunications resellers (see 619000)