This manual aims at providing the methodological guidelines for elaborating statistics on telecommunication services and being the reference methodological document to support the work in this field at Community level. It represents a framework for the collection of harmonised and comparable statistics on telecommunication services and compiles all information necessary to reach this objective. It deals with the delineation of statistics on telecommunication services and provides descriptions of the variables to be collected.

The target audience for this manual is producers and users of statistics, including statisticians in National Statistical Institutes, National Regulatory Authorities, Eurostat, and other international organisations, like the ITU and the OECD.

Custodian: Eurostat