HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954
subscriber on the Hong Kong Telephone Exchange. This service is proving both popular and useful, and about 250 calls a day are now made to and from ships in harbour. It is believed that Hong Kong's "Harborphone" is one of the most advanced existing.
The Company's radio facsimile service, already available to and from Singapore and London, has been extended to include Japan and Manila.
The internal telegram service operated on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories is being used more and more by the public. A telegram which costs only 50 cents (71d.) for ten words is delivered to any part of the Colony without extra charge.
The traffic figures for the year ending the 31st December, 1954 were as follows:-
Telegrams transmitted
99
received
Radiophone minutes transmitted
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received
Ship/Shore radiophone Mins. transmitted ...
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"9
received
1,188,478
1,232,348
560,899
1,102,083
92
202
Radio pictures transmitted 207 pictures 56,240 sq. cms.
received
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5
837
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Telephones
The Hong Kong Telephone Company Ltd., provides a public telephone service which covers Hong Kong, Kowloon and the whole of the New Territories. At the end of the year 1954, the total number of direct exchange lines working on the Company's system was 33,568 and the number of extensions was 15,962, making a total of 49,530 stations.
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