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APPENDICES
APPENDIX 53
(Chapter 19: Communications, the Media and IT)
Communications
Postal traffic
Letter mail (million articles)
Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong
Posted for local delivery
Received from places outside Hong Kong for
local delivery
1997
1998
וד
1999
144.1
141.5
135.4
1 036.8
1 026.0
1 049.3
91.7
88.6
83.6
0.7
0.6
0.5
In transit
Parcels (thousands)
Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong
921
675
620
Posted for local delivery
76
63
48
Received from places outside Hong Kong for
391
357
330
local delivery
In transit
37
30
29
Telecommunications traffic
Telephones services
Telephone lines (thousands)
3 624
3.708
Telephone lines per 1 000 population
547.7
544.8
Number of telephones (thousands)
4 685
4 763
Number of telephones per 100 population
70.8
70.0
Fax lines (thousands)
343
360
3819 † 558+
4 888 #+ 71.4#† 382+
Effective exchange capacity (thousand lines)
3786
3.992
4 183 +
Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers per
1 000 population
315.2
420.0
Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000
population
141.0
84.0
540.6†
50.6†
External telecommunications traffic
Outward (thousand minutes)
1 738 236
1 718 519
Inward (thousand minutes)
2 120 480
1 957 619
2 550 773
1 694 149
Number of international leased circuits
2 252*
2 310*
Telecommunications licences (all types)
104 232
105 787
2 297 +
105 604
Note:
* Revised figure.
# Provisional figure.
† Figures are as at end of November.
Sources: Hongkong Post.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2921 2231)
Office of the Telecommunications Authority. (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 6652)