| 24-25 Communications and Internet Services | |
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| Item | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
| | | | | | |
| Postal Services | | | | | |
| Letter
Mail (100 million articles) | 13.6 | 12.7 | 12.6 | 12.7 | 12.7 | |
| Parcels (10 000 pcs) | 92.3 | 92.8 | 94.6 | 93.8 | 92.7 | |
| Telephone Services①② (10 000 working lines) | | |
| Residential | 216.1 | 213.4 | 211.9 | 211.8 | 211.6 | |
| Business | 176.5 | 170.8 | 170.1 | 166.2 | 167.7 | |
| Total | 392.6 | 384.2 | 382.0 | 378.0 | 379.3 | |
| Fax② (10 000 working lines) | 41.1 | 54.6 | 49.1 | 45.6 | 41.0 | |
| External Telephone Traffic Volume | | |
| (10 000 minutes) | | |
| Outgoing③ | 348729 | 395090 | 423260 | 493653 | 563840 | |
| Incoming④ | 194235 | 175599 | 167620 | 203725 | 216752 | |
| External Telex Traffic Volume | | |
| (10 000 minutes) | | |
| Outward | 195.4 | 150.1 | 92.9 | 62.8 | 30.0 | |
| Inward | 247.1 | 229.1 | 162.9 | 102.4 | 84.3 | |
| Transit | 303.6 | 212.2 | 142.4 | 87.1 | 56.5 | |
| Internal Telex Traffic (10 000 minutes) | 530.7 | 294.9 | 206.9 | 178.8 | 120.9 | |
| Public Telegram Traffic⑤(10 000 messages) | | |
| Outward | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | - | - | |
| Inward | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | - | - | |
| Inland Telegram⑤ (10 000 messages) | 0.3 | 0# | 0# | - | - | |
| Public Radio Paging Receivers② (numbers) | 253215 | 197405 | 177926 | 157695 | 131740 | |
| Public Mobile Radiotelephone
Subscriber | | |
| Units②⑥⑦ (numbers) | 4256422 | 4207465 | 4407569 | 4575069 | 4753916 | |
| (5701686) | (6218984) | (7194335) | (8157960) | (8544255) | |
| Internet Services | | |
| No. of Licensed Internet
Service | | |
| Providers (ISPs)② | 258 | 235 | 201 | 188 | 186 | |
| No. of Customers of
Licensed (ISPs)②⑧ | | | |
| | |
| Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up | | |
| Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling | | |
| Cards)⑨ | 2018238 | 1371705 | 1084368 | 1003604 | 974873 | |
| Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up | | |
| Access | 18569 | 14978 | 20411 | 9800 | 4800 | |
| Registered Customer Accounts with Leased | | |
| Line Access⑨ | 7066 | 3439 | 2739 | 2259 | 1925 | |
| Registered Broadband Internet Access | | |
| Customer Accounts⑨⑩ | 623302 | 989115 | 1230607 | 1484486 | 1648409 | |
| Internet Traffic Volume⑧ | | |
| Customer Access via Public Switched | | |
| Telephone Networks⑪ (10 000
minutes) | 1105581 | 555023 | 356394 | 189698 | 105954 | |
| Customer Access via Broadband | | |
| Networks⑪ (terabits) | 73607 | 215296 | 933728 | 2949652 | 5392294 | |
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| Notes
: ①Figures inlcude direct
dialing in lines, facsimile lines and Datel lines. ②Figures are as at end of the year. |
| ③Figures also include
facsimile and data. ④Estimated figures. ⑤Related
service has been terminated since 1 January 2004. |
| ⑥Excluding pre-paid
SIM cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in brackets. | |
| ⑦Figures include 3G
mobile services starting from 2004. | |
| ⑧Estimated figures
are based on the returns from the ISPs and do not include users who are not
customers of the licensed ISPs. | |
| ⑨Registered 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. | |
| ⑩Broadband means the
capacity to transmit data at the rate of 1.5Mbps or above using family of
Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL), | |
| Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS), Fibre-to-the-Building
(FTTB), cable modem or other technologies. | |
| ⑪Not including
customer access via leased circuits and broadband services. | |
| "-" Not
applicable. "0#" Magnitude less than half of the unit employed. | |
