61 Telecommunications

This class 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 class excludes: - telecommunications resellers, see 61.90

This class includes: - operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using a wireless telecommunications infrastructure - maintaining and operating paging as well as cellular and other wireless telecommunications networks The transmission facilities provide omni-directional transmission via airwaves and may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. This class excludes: - telecommunications resellers, see 61.90

This class includes: - operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a satellite telecommunications infrastructure - delivery of visual, aural or textual programming received from cable networks, local television stations or radio networks to consumers via direct-to-home satellite systems. (The units classified here do not generally originate programming material.) This class excludes: - telecommunications resellers, see 61.90

This class includes: - provision of specialised telecommunications applications, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operations - operation of satellite terminal stations and associated facilities operationally connected with one or more terrestrial communications systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to or receiving telecommunications from satellite systems - provision of Internet access over networks between the client and the ISP not owned or controlled by the ISP, such as dial-up Internet access etc. - provision of telephone and Internet access in facilities open to the public - provision of telecommunications services over existing telecom connections: • VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) provision - telecommunications resellers (i.e. purchasing and reselling network capacity without providing additional services) This class excludes: - provision of Internet access by operators of telecommunications infrastructure, see 61.10, 61.20, 61.30