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| 24-25 Communications and Internet Services |
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2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
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| Postal Services |
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| Letter
Mail (100 million articles) |
13.4 |
13.6 |
12.7 |
12.6 |
12.7 |
| Parcels (10 000 pcs) |
97.5 |
92.3 |
92.8 |
94.6 |
93.8 |
| Telephone Services¢Ù¢Ú(10 000 working lines) |
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| Residential |
221.0 |
216.1 |
213.4 |
211.9 |
211.8 |
| Business |
173.6 |
176.5 |
170.8 |
170.1 |
166.2 |
| Total |
394.6 |
392.6 |
384.2 |
382.0 |
378.0 |
| Fax¢Ú (10 000 working lines) |
40.4 |
41.1 |
54.6 |
49.1 |
45.6 |
| External Telephone Traffic Volume |
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| (10 000 minutes) |
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| Outgoing¢Û |
307489 |
348729 |
395090 |
423260 |
493653 |
| Incoming¢Ü |
185805 |
194235 |
175599 |
167620 |
203725 |
| External Telex Traffic Volume |
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| (10 000 minutes) |
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| Outward |
304.7 |
195.4 |
150.1 |
92.9 |
62.8 |
| Inward |
323.1 |
247.1 |
229.1 |
162.9 |
102.4 |
| Transit |
362.9 |
303.6 |
212.2 |
142.4 |
87.1 |
| Internal Telex Traffic (10 000 minutes) |
698.9 |
530.7 |
294.9 |
206.9 |
178.8 |
| Public Telegram Traffic¢Ý(10 000 messages) |
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| Outward |
2.1 |
1.2 |
0.7 |
0.5 |
- |
| Inward |
0.8 |
0.5 |
0.4 |
0.2 |
- |
| Inland Telegram¢Ý (10 000 messages) |
0.1 |
0.3 |
0.005 |
0.007 |
- |
| Public Radio Paging Receivers¢Ú(numbers) |
327768 |
253215 |
197405 |
177926 |
157695 |
| Public Mobile Radiotelephone
Subscriber |
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| Units¢Ú¢Þ¢ß (numbers) |
4173318 |
4256422 |
4207465 |
4407569 |
4575069 |
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(5234370) |
(5701686) |
(6218984) |
(7194335) |
(8157960) |
| Internet Services |
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| No. of Licensed Internet
Service |
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| Providers (ISPs)¢Ú |
235 |
258 |
235 |
201 |
188 |
| No. of Customers of
Licensed Internet |
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| Service Providers
(ISPs)¢Ú¢à |
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| Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up |
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| Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling |
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| Cards)¢á |
2283047 |
2018238 |
1371705 |
1084368 |
1003604 |
| Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up |
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| Access |
38708 |
18569 |
14978 |
20411 |
9800 |
| Registered Customer Accounts with Leased |
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| Line Access¢á |
11527 |
7066 |
3439 |
2739 |
2259 |
| Registered Broadband Internet Access |
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| Customer Accounts¢á¢â(11) |
392118 |
623302 |
989115 |
1230607 |
1484486 |
| Internet Traffic Volume¢à |
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| Customer Access via Public Switched |
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| Telephone Networks(12) (10
000 minutes) |
1498859 |
1105581 |
555023 |
356394 |
189698 |
| Customer Access via Broadband |
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| Networks(11)(13) (terabits) |
2909 |
73607 |
215296 |
933728 |
2949652 |
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Notes : ¢ÙFigures inlcude direct dialing in
lines, facsimile lines and Datel lines.
¢ÚFigures are as at
end of the year.
¢ÛFigures include
facsimile and data. ¢ÜEstimated figures.
¢ÝRelated service
has been terminated since 1 January 2004.
¢ÞExcluding pre-paid SIM
cards. Figures including prepaid
SIM cards are presented in brackets
¢ßThe figure of 2004
includes 3G mobile services.
¢àEstimated figures are
based on the return from the ISPs and do not
include users who are not
customers of the licensed ISPs.
¢áRegistered customer
accounts refer to the customer accounts of
ISPs (including those
free-of-charge customer accounts). For a registered
customer account which has more than one user login ID, it is counted
as
one registered customer account only. Figures do not include
customer accounts which are provided with e-mail addresses only.
¢âFigures were first
available in February 2000.
(11)Broadband Internet access refers to services with downloading
speed of 1 Mbps or above using cable modem, ATM (asynchronous
transfer mode), ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line),
DSL
(digital subscriber line) or other technologies.
(12)Not including customer access via leased circuits and broadband
services.
(13)Figures were first available in November 2000.
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