24-25 Communications and Internet Services |
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Item |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
| Postal Services |
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| Letter
Mail(100 million articles) |
12.7 |
13.4 |
13.6 |
12.7 |
12.7 |
| Parcels(10 000 pcs) |
102.7 |
97.5 |
92.3 |
92.8 |
94.6 |
| Telephone Services¢Ù(10 000 working lines) |
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| Residential |
219.0 |
221.0 |
216.1 |
213.4 |
211.9 |
| Business |
164.9 |
173.6 |
176.5 |
170.8 |
170.1 |
| Total |
383.9 |
394.6 |
392.6 |
384.2 |
382.0 |
| FAX¢Ù(10 000 working lines) |
38.4 |
40.4 |
41.1 |
54.6 |
49.1 |
| External Telephone Traffic Volume |
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| (10 000 minutes) |
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| Outgoing¢Ú¢Û |
255011 |
307489 |
348729 |
395090 |
423260 |
| Incoming¢Ü |
167922 |
185805 |
194235 |
175599 |
167620 |
| External Telex Traffic Volume |
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| (10 000 minutes) |
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| Outward |
407.3 |
304.7 |
195.4 |
150.1 |
92.9 |
| Inward |
412.9 |
323.0 |
247.1 |
229.1 |
162.9 |
| Transit |
534.8 |
362.8 |
303.6 |
212.2 |
142.4 |
| Internal Telex Traffic (10 000 minutes) |
983.2 |
728.9 |
530.7 |
294.9 |
206.9 |
| Public Telegram Traffic (10 000
messages) |
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| Outward |
2.7 |
2.1 |
1.2 |
0.7 |
0.5 |
| Inward |
1.2 |
0.8 |
0.5 |
0.4 |
0.2 |
| Inland Telegram(10 000 messages) |
1.5 |
0.1 |
0.3 |
0.005 |
0.007 |
| Public Radio Paging
Receivers¢Ù(numbers) |
342058 |
327768 |
253215 |
197405 |
177926 |
| Public Mobile Radiotelephone
Subscriber |
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| Units¢Ù¢Ý(numbers) |
3650238 |
4173318 |
4256422 |
4207465 |
4407569 |
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(3989750) |
(5234370) |
(5701686) |
(6218984) |
(7194335) |
| Internet Services |
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| No. of Licensed Internet
Service |
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| Providers (ISPs)¢Ù |
159 |
235 |
259 |
236 |
201 |
| No. of Customers of
Licensed Internet |
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| Service Providers
(ISPs)¢Ù¢Þ |
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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)¢ß |
1734254 |
2283047 |
2018238 |
1371705 |
1084368 |
| Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up |
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| Access |
117496 |
38708 |
18569 |
14978 |
20411 |
| Registered Customer Accounts with Leased |
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| Line Access¢ß |
7495 |
11527 |
7066 |
3439 |
2739 |
| Registered Broadband Internet Access |
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| Customer Accounts¢ß¢à¢á |
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392118 |
623302 |
989115 |
1230607 |
| Internet Traffic Volume¢Þ |
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| Customer Access via Public Switched |
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| Telephone Networks¢â (10 000 minutes) |
1092312 |
1498859 |
1105581 |
555023 |
3563943 |
| Customer Access via Broadband |
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| Networks¢á¢Ï(terabits) |
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2909 |
73607 |
215296 |
933728 |
| Notes:¢ÙFigures are as at end of the year. ¢ÚFigures include facsimile and data. ¢ÛFigures prior to 1999 refer to voice
traffic only. ¢ÜEstimated
figures. |
| ¢ÝExcluding pre-paid SIM
cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in brackets. |
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| ¢ÞEstimated figures are
based on the return from the ISPs and do not include users who are not
customers on the licensed ISPs. |
| ¢ßRegistered 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. |
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| ¢àFigures were first
available in February 2000. |
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| ¢áBroadband 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. |
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| ¢â Not including customer
access via leased circuits and broadband services. |
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| ¢ÏFigures were first
available in November 2000. |
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