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Telecom. IT: IT services have contributed to 13.5% business increase
Business market services for enterprises registered an increase of 13.5% in the first 6 months of the year, against the same period of 2018, mainly due to IT services which went up by 24%, INS (National Statistics Institute) showed on Wednesday.
Over January 1 – June 30, 2019, increases of business figures for: other services supplied mainly to enterprises (+17.2%), transport activities (+9.8%), communications activities (+5.5%), cinema, video, TV productions, program broadcasts (+3.1%).
As an adjusted series, business figures from market services offered mainly to enterprises grew by 14.5%.
According to the source, in June 2019, compared to June 2018, market services offered to enterprises grew on the overall, by 7.3%, backed by the evolution of the business figure from IT services (+18.5%), other services supplied to enterprises (+11.9%), communications activities (+4.8%) and transport activities (+0.6%). On the other hand, cinema, video, TV program activities and program broadcasts went down by 3.2%.
At the same time, business figures from market services for enterprises as series adjusted according to the number of work days and season, went up by 9.5% in June 2019 , against June 2018.
Statistic data show that in June 2019, compared to May 2019, the business figure from market services offered to enterprises dropped by 0.9% because of negative results from cinema, video, TV programs, TV broadcasts (-8.2%) and transport activities (-5.9%).
In exchange, there were increases for business figures of IT service activities(+5%), other services supplied to enterprises (+1.8%) and communication activities (+1.4%).
In the same reference period, businesses from services offered to enterprises dropped by 0.8% on the overall.