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Table 40

(Chapter 17: Communications, the Media and Information Technology)

Communications and Internet Services
  1998 2002 2003  
             
Postal services            
Letter mail (million articles) 1 257   1 274 * 1 270  
Parcels (thousands) 1 125   928 * 946  
             
Telecommunications and Internet Services            
  Telephone lines (thousands)            
  Business 1 549   1 708   1 701  
    Residential 2 159   2 134   2 119  
    Total 3 708   3 842   3 820  
  Number of fax lines (thousand working lines) 360   546   491  
  Telephone lines per 1 000 population 563   566 * 561 #
  Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers 420   620 * 647 #
    per 1 000 population(1) [440]   [916] * [1 056] #
  Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000 population 87   29   26 #
  Outward external telephone traffic (million minutes) 1 719   3 951   4 233  
  Number of licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 133   236 * 201  
  Number of customers of the licensed            
    Internet Service Providers (ISPs)            
    Registered customer accounts with dial-up(2) access (thousands) —   1 372   1 084  
    Registered broadband Internet access customer accounts (thousands) —   989   1 231  
                 
Internet traffic volume            
  Customer access via public switched telephone networks(3) (million minutes) 5 359   5 550   3 564  
  Customer access via broadband networks (terabits) —   215 296   933 728  

Notes:

(1)

Excluding pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including pre-paid SIM cards are presented in square brackets.

(2)

Excluding Internet pre-paid calling cards.

(3)

Excluding customer access via leased circuits.

Source:

Hong Kong Post.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2921 2231)
Office of the Telecommunications Authority.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 6652)
     
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