WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1985
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WHILE CAREFUL PLANNING WAS DONE IN CONSISTENCY WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH HONG KONG'S NEIGHBOURS, EACH INDIVIDUAL USE OF RADIO WOULD ALSO HAVE TO BE ASSIGNED A FREQUENCY FROM A CENTRAL RECORD KEPT BY THE POST OFFICE, SO THAT UNWANTED INTERFERENCE AMONG USERS COULD BE AVOIDED, HE SAID.
MOREOVER, THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS BRANCH ALSO HAD A RADIO MONITORING UNIT TO INVESTIGATE AND ELIMINATE RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AND A HOT LINE HAD BEEN SET UP TO ACCEPT COMPLAINTS FROM THE PUBLIC, HE SAID.
AT PRESENT, THE POST OFFICE ISSUED 25 DIFFERENT TYPES OF TELECOMMUNICATION LICENCES WITH A TOTAL OF ABOUT 40 000 LICENCES CURRENTLY IN FORCE.
TURNING TO THE MORE FAMILIAR SERVICE OFFERED BY THE POST OFFICE, MR LAN SAID THAT POSTAL SERVICE IN HONG KONG HAD KEPT IN STEP WITH THE TIMES.
IN THE 1840S WHEN HONG KONG WAS FOUNDED, THE POST OFFICE HANDLED SOME 250 LETTERS A DAY AND THIS HAD GROWN TO 1.5 MILLION LETTERS AND PARCELS BEING PROCESSED DAILY TODAY.
THE POST OFFICE WAS CURRENTLY HANDLING SOME 530 MILLION POSTAL ITEMS EACH YEAR, WITH AN ANNUAL GROWTH RATE OF ABOUT 8 TO 10 PER CENT, HE SAID.
TO ENABLE HONG KONG TO PLAY AN EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE COMMERCIAL ROLE INTERNATIONALLY A NUMBER OF SPECIAL SERVICES FOR SPEEDY TRANSMISSION OF TIME-SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS HAD BEEN INTRODUCED, HE SAID.
THESE INCLUDED:
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ENLARGED PARCEL SERVICE WHICH ENABLED LARGER AND HEAVIER PARCELS OF 20 KILOGRAMS TO BE SENT BY SURFACE OR AIR TO OVER 60 COUNTRIES
SPEEDPOST SERVICE COVERING OVER 300 MAJOR CITIES IN 32 COUNTRIES INCLUDING CHINA, JAPAN, AND MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND
INTELPOST SERVICE WHICH WAS INTRODUCED IN LATE 1982 AND AVAILABLE TO 30 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, WEST GERMANY, JAPAN AND SINGAPORE.
MR LAN SAID ANOTHER SERVICE BEING CONSIDERED BY THE POST OFFICE WAS THE PROVISION OF A NEW TYPE OF LICENCE WHICH WOULD ENABLE PLEASURE VESSELS TO CARRY AND USE RADIO EQUIPMENT WITH A MINIMUM DEGREE OF CONTROL.
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