International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 210 5920 Sound recording and music publishing activities This class includes: production of original (sound) master recordings, such as tapes, CDs — — sound recording service activities in a studio or elsewhere, including the production of — — taped (i.e. non-live) radio programming, audio for film, television etc. music publishing, i.e. activities of: — — acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions promoting, authorizing and using these compositions in recordings, radio, televi- sion, motion pictures, live performances, print and other media distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the public Units engaged in these activities may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of the copyright owners. This class also includes: publishing of music and sheet books — — This class excludes: reproduction from master copies of music or other sound recordings, see 1820 — — wholesale of recorded audio tapes and disks, see 4649 — — 60 Programming and broadcasting activities This division includes the activities of creating content or acquiring the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcasting that content, such as radio, television and data programs of entertainment, news, talk, and the like. Also included is data broadcasting, typically integrated with radio or TV broadcasting. The broadcasting can be performed using different technologies, over-the-air, via satellite, via a cable network or via Internet. This division also includes the production of programs that are typically narrowcast in nature (limited format, such as news, sports, education or youth-oriented programming) on a subscription or fee basis, to a third party, for subsequent broadcasting to the pub- lic. This division excludes the distribution of cable and other subscription programming (see division 61). 601 Radio broadcasting See class 6010. 6010 Radio broadcasting This class includes: broadcasting audio signals through radio broadcasting studios and facilities for the — — transmission of aural programming to the public, to affiliates or to subscribers This class also includes: activities of radio networks, i.e. assembling and transmitting aural programming to the — — affiliates or subscribers via over-the-air broadcasts, cable or satellite radio broadcasting activities over the Internet (Internet radio stations) — — data broadcasting integrated with radio broadcasting — — This class excludes: production of taped radio programming, see 5920 — —
Detailed structure and explanatory notes 211 602 Television programming and broadcasting activities See class 6020. 6020 Television programming and broadcasting activities This class includes: creation of a complete television channel programme, from purchased programme — — components (e.g. movies, documentaries etc.), self produced programme components (e.g. local news, live reports) or a combination thereof This complete television programme can be either broadcast by the producing unit or produced for transmission by third party distributors, such as cable companies or satellite television providers. The programming may be of a general or specialized nature (e.g. limited formats such as news, sports, education or youth oriented programming), may be made freely available to users or may be available only on a subscription basis. This class also includes: programming of video-on-demand channels — — data broadcasting integrated with television broadcasting — — This class excludes: production of television programme elements (e.g. movies, documentaries, commercials), — — see 5911 assembly of a package of channels and distribution of that package via cable or satellite to — — viewers, see division 61 61 Telecommunications This division includes the activities of providing telecommunications 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. The breakdown in this division is based on the type of infrastructure operated. In the case of transmission of television signals this may include the bundling of complete programming channels (produced in division 60) in to programme packages for distribu- tion. 611 Wired telecommunications activities See class 6110. 6110 Wired telecommunications activities 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, includ- ing: 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)
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 212 furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities The transmission facilities that carry out these activities, may be based on a single tech- nology or a combination of technologies. This class also includes: purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and — — providing telecommunications services using this capacity to businesses and house- holds provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure — — This class excludes: telecommunications resellers, see 6190 — — 612 Wireless telecommunications activities See class 6120. 6120 Wireless telecommunications activities 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 telecommuni- — — cations 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 also includes: purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and — — providing wireless telecommunications services (except satellite) using this capacity to businesses and households provision of Internet access by the operator of the wireless infrastructure — — This class excludes: telecommunications resellers, see 6190 — — 613 Satellite telecommunications activities See class 6130. 6130 Satellite telecommunications activities 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 also includes: provision of Internet access by the operator of the satellite infrastructure — — This class excludes: telecommunications resellers, see 6190 — —
Detailed structure and explanatory notes 213 619 Other telecommunications activities See class 6190. 6190 Other telecommunications activities This class includes: provision of specialized telecommunications applications, such as satellite tracking, — — communications telemetry, and radar station operations operation of satellite terminal stations and associated facilities operationally con- — — nected with one or more terrestrial communications systems and capable of transmit- ting 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 6110, — — 6120, 6130 62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities This division includes the following activities of providing expertise in the field of infor- mation technologies: writing, modifying, testing and supporting software; planning and designing computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software and commu- nication technologies; on-site management and operation of clients’ computer systems and/or data processing facilities; and other professional and technical computer-related activities. 620 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities See division 62. 6201 Computer programming activities This class includes the writing, modifying, testing and supporting of software. This class includes: designing the structure and content of, and/or writing the computer code necessary — — to create and implement: systems software (including updates and patches) software applications (including updates and patches) databases web pages customizing of software, i.e. modifying and configuring an existing application so that — — it is functional within the clients’ information system environment This class excludes: publishing packaged software, see 5820 — —
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 214 planning and designing computer systems that integrate computer hardware, soft- — — ware and communication technologies, even though providing software might be an integral part, see 6202 6202 Computer consultancy and computer facilities management activities This class includes: planning and designing of computer systems that integrate computer hardware, soft- — — ware and communication technologies The units classified in this class may provide the hardware and software components of the system as part of their integrated services or these components may be provided by third parties or vendors. The units classified in this class often install the system and train and support the users of the system. This class also includes: provision of on-site management and operation of clients’ computer systems and/or — — data processing facilities, as well as related support services This class excludes: separate sale of computer hardware or software, see 4651, 4741 — — separate installation of mainframe and similar computers, see 3320 — — separate installation (setting-up) of personal computers, see 6209 — — separate software installation, see 6209 — — 6209 Other information technology and computer service activities This class includes other information technology and computer related activities not else- where classified, such as: computer disaster recovery — — installation (setting-up) of personal computers — — software installation — — This class excludes: installation of mainframe and similar computers, see 3320 — — computer programming, see 6201 — — computer consultancy, see 6202 — — computer facilities management, see 6202 — — data processing and hosting, see 6311 — — 63 Information service activities This division includes the activities of web search portals, data processing and hosting activities, as well as other activities that primarily supply information. 631 Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals This group includes the provision of infrastructure for hosting, data processing services and related activities, as well as the provision of search facilities and other portals for the Internet.
Detailed structure and explanatory notes 215 6311 Data processing, hosting and related activities This class includes: provision of infrastructure for hosting, data processing services and related activities — — specialized hosting activities such as: — — Web hosting streaming services application hosting application service provisioning — — general time-share provision of mainframe facilities to clients — — data processing activities: — — complete processing of data supplied by clients generation of specialized reports from data supplied by clients provision of data entry services — — 6312 Web portals This class includes: operation of web sites that use a search engine to generate and maintain extensive — — databases of Internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format operation of other websites that act as portals to the Internet, such as media sites pro- — — viding periodically updated content 639 Other information service activities This group includes the activities of news agencies and all other remaining information service activities. This group excludes: activities of libraries and archives, see 9101 — — 6391 News agency activities This class includes: news syndicate and news agency activities furnishing news, pictures and features to — — the media This class excludes: activities of independent photojournalists, see 7420 — — activities of independent journalists, see 9000 — — 6399 Other information service activities n.e.c. This class includes other information service activities not elsewhere classified, such as: telephone based information services — — information search services on a contract or fee basis — — news clipping services, press clipping services, etc. — — This class excludes: activities of call centers, see 8220 — —
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 216 Section K Financial and insurance activities This section includes financial service activities, including insurance, reinsurance and pension funding activities and activities to support financial services. This section also includes the activities of holding assets, such as activities of holding companies and the activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities. 64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding This division includes the activities of obtaining and redistributing funds other than for the purpose of insurance or pension funding or compulsory social security. Note: National institutional arrangements are likely to play a significant role in determin- ing the classification within this division. 641 Monetary intermediation This group includes the obtaining of funds in the form of transferable deposits, i.e. funds that are fixed in money terms, obtained on a day-to-day basis and, apart from central banking, obtained from non-financial sources. 6411 Central banking This class includes: issuing and managing the country’s currency — — monitoring and control of the money supply — — taking deposits that are used for clearance between financial institutions — — supervising banking operations — — holding the country’s international reserves — — acting as banker to the government — — The activities of central banks will vary for institutional reasons. 6419 Other monetary intermediation This class includes the receiving of deposits and/or close substitutes for deposits and extending of credit or lending funds. The granting of credit can take a variety of forms, such as loans, mortgages, credit cards etc. These activities are generally carried out by monetary institutions other than central banks, such as: banks — — savings banks — — credit unions — — This class also includes: postal giro and postal savings bank activities — — credit granting for house purchase by specialized deposit-taking institutions — — money order activities — — This class excludes: credit granting for house purchase by specialized non-depository institutions, see 6492 — — credit card transaction processing and settlement activities, see 6619 — —