23-23
Communications and Internet Services |
| Item |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
| Postal Services |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Letter Mail (100
million articles) |
12.7 |
12.6 |
12.7 |
13.4 |
13.6 |
|
Parcels
(10 000 pcs) |
142.5 |
112.5 |
102.7 |
97.5 |
92.3 |
| Telephone
Services1*(10 000
working lines) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Residential
|
209.8 |
215.9 |
219.0 |
221.0 |
216.1 |
|
Business
|
152.6 |
154.9 |
164.9 |
173.6 |
176.5 |
| Total
|
362.4 |
370.8 |
383.9 |
394.6 |
392.6 |
| FAX1*
(10 000 working lines) |
34.3 |
36.0 |
38.4 |
40.4 |
41.1 |
| External Telephone
Traffic Volume |
|
|
|
|
|
| (10 000 minutes) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outgoing2*3*
|
173824 |
171852 |
255011 |
307489 |
348729 |
|
Incoming4*
|
212048 |
195762 |
167922 |
185805 |
194235 |
| External Telex Traffic Volume |
|
|
|
|
|
| (10 000 minutes)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outward
|
865.2 |
611.9 |
407.3 |
304.7 |
195.4 |
|
Inward
|
872.4 |
575.8 |
412.9 |
323.0 |
247.1 |
|
Transit
|
1097.6 |
771.3 |
534.8 |
362.8 |
303.6 |
| Internal Telex
Traffic (10 000 minutes) |
1714.8 |
1313.1 |
983.2 |
728.9 |
530.7 |
| Public Telegram
Traffic (10 000 messages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outward
|
5.2 |
3.7 |
2.7 |
2.1 |
1.2 |
|
Inward
|
3.4 |
2.0 |
1.2 |
0.8 |
0.5 |
| Inland
Telegram
(10 000 messages) |
1.1 |
0.9 |
1.5 |
0.1 |
0.3 |
| Public Radio
Paging Receivers1*(numbers) |
932854 |
571800 |
342058 |
327768 |
253215 |
| Public Mobile
Radiotelephone Subscriber |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Units1*5*
(numbers) |
2085600 |
2767941 |
3650238 |
4173318 |
4256422 |
|
(2127935) |
(2898077) |
(3989750) |
(5234370) |
(5701686) |
| Internet
Services |
|
|
|
|
|
| No. of Licensed
Internet Service |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Providers (ISPs) |
124 |
133 |
159 |
235 |
259 |
| No. of
Customers of Licensed Internet |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service Providers (ISPs)6* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cards)7* |
- |
- |
1734254 |
2283047 |
2018238 |
|
Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Access |
- |
- |
117496 |
38708 |
18569 |
|
Registered Customer Accounts with Leased |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Line Access7* |
- |
- |
7495 |
11527 |
7066 |
|
Registered Broadband Internet Access |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer Accounts7*8*9* |
- |
- |
- |
392118 |
623302 |
|
Internet Traffic Volume6* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer Access via Public Switched |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Telephone Networks10*(10 000 minutes) |
124596 |
535902 |
1092312 |
1498859 |
1105581 |
|
Customer Access via Broadband |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Networks9*11*
(terabits) |
- |
- |
- |
2909 |
73607 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Notes:1*Figures are as at end of
the year. 2*Figures include facsimile and data. |
| 3*Figures prior to 1999 refer to voice traffic only. 4*Estimated figures. |
|
5*Excluding
pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in
brackets. |
|
6*Estimated
figures are based on the return from the ISPs and do not include users |
| who are not customers on the licensed ISPs. |
|
7*Registered
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. |
|
8*Figures were
first available in February 2000. |
|
9*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. |
| 10*Figures were
first available in August 1997. Not including customer access via leased
circuits and broadband services. |
|
11*Figures were
first available in November 2000. |
|
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|
|
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