Hong Kong Telephone offers a wide range of modern facilities including dial, push buttons and contempra telephone instruments, multi line key systems, concentrators, radio paging, conference facilities on local and international calls, facsimile or data transmission services, and a Service 800 wide area telephone service (WATS) facility for use to other countries. Private data transmission networks are supplied, and vary in size up to several hundred terminals. A rapid increase in the use of these networks is forecast. New services programmed for introduction include a digital PABX, an interactive Viewdata information service, automatic answering and recording equipment, autodialling and loudspeaking telephones, and a mobile radio telephone service.
Postal Service
Airmail letters and parcels are forwarded daily to about 220 countries. Incoming air mail is given expeditious treatment, and delivery is usually assured to most places in Hong Kong within a few hours of arrival.
A speedpost service meets demands for a fast delivery of urgent documents and materials to selected countries (including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Japan, Kuwait, Macau, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The service is offered on a contract or on demand basis, and delivery will be made within 24 to 48 hours of posting, depending on the destination.
Internal Transportation
The Government has provided excellent facilities for internal communications, and has a very large public works programme in hand to ensure that the highway system remains capable of coping with the substantial volume of traffic generated by our many and increasing industrial and commercial activities.
The 32-kilometre Tuen Mun Highway links Tuen Mun New Town with Tsuen Wan.
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