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Cable Telecommunications Activities

This group includes activities related to operating, maintaining, or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using telecommunications cable infrastructure. It involves operating and maintaining facilities for conversion and transmission to provide point-to-point communication through landlines, microwave or data channel connections, and satellite links. It also includes operating cable distribution systems (for data and television signal distribution) and providing telegraph and other non-vocal communication services using their facilities. The transmission facilities for these activities can be based on single technologies or combinations of various technologies. This group covers the purchase of access and network capacity from the owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications services using this capacity to businesses and households. It also includes providing internet access through cable infrastructure operators. Activities include the operation of fixed telecommunications networks intended for public telecommunications and leased circuits. This also includes data communication connections where delivery is done in packets, through a central system or another network, such as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). It also encompasses the provision of terrestrial network services serving specific mobile customers, including radio trunking services and public radio paging services.