61 Telecommunication

This division includes:

• activities of providing telecommunication and related service activities, i.e. transmitting voice, data, text, sound and video. The transmission facilities that carry out these activities may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. The commonality of activities classified in this division is the transmission of content, without being involved in its creation or alteration. In the case of transmission of television signals this may include complete bundled and programmed channels (produced in division 60) into programme packages
• provision of services for machine-to-machine communication
• transmission of audio or video data without having acquired the rights to the audio or video content

This division excludes:

• motion picture, audiovisual, television programme, and sound recording production and post-production activities, including services to convert audio and video content into streaming formats, see division 59
• activities of broadcasting and provision of audio and video streaming or download distribution services, see division 60