The telecommunications sub-sector – comprising telecommunications and Internet services (e.g. Internet access service providers, cyber cafes) – has the highest profitability ratio and is the largest contributor to the sector’s operating receipts.

Types Of Businesses
Sub-Sector Highlights
Sub-Sector Snapshot (2005)
Business Costs
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Types Of Businesses

• Businesses that provide telecommunications or Internet services fall into this sub-sector. They include:
  
  
  • providers of fixed-line services (local/international PSTN, lease circuits etc.)
  • mobile cellular and radio paging service providers
  • satellite uplink and downlink service providers
  • Internet access providers (including Internet Service Providers)
  • third party telecommunications/value-added network operators
  • cyber cafes

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Sub-Sector Highlights

• Compared to other sub-sectors, the telecommunications sub-sector contributes the most of the sector’s operating receipts and has the:
  
  
  • highest profitability ratio
  • highest value added
  • highest earnings-expenditure ratio
  • highest value added per worker
  • second highest average annual remuneration per employee

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Sub-Sector Snapshot (2005)

Number of Establishments	573
Number of Workers	13,542
Operating Receipts	S$7.9 billion
Operating Expenditure	S$6.1 billion
Operating Surplus	S$2.7 billion
Value Added	S$3.7 billion
Profitability Ratio* (%)	34.5
Average Annual Remuneration per Employee	S$70,100

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Economic Surveys Series 2005: Information and Communications Services
Department of Statistics (DOS)
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