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TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1993

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CHAI.

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HK TOPS THE WORLD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE

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MOBILE

TELECOMMUNICATION

HONG KONG LEADS THE WORLD IN VIRTUALLY EVERY ASPECT OF COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND AUTHORITY, MR M PAGLIARI, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

"THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELECOMS INDUSTRY IN HONG THE MID-80S HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD, METEORIC AND HONG KONG TODAY IS, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE SOPHISTICATED MARKET FOR TELECOMS, MR PAGLIARI SAID, CONFERENCE.

THIS IS COMMUNICATIONS.

PARTICULARLY

H

KONG SINCE

BEEN

MOST

IT HAS WORLD'S

IN A PRESS

NOTICEABLE IN THE FIELD OF MOBILE

IN RADIO PAGING, HONG KONG HAS 32 LICENSED OPERATING COMPANIES, COMPARED WITH ONLY ONE IN SINGAPORE, 10 IN THE UK AND 36 IN JAPAN.

WELL OVER ONE MILLION PAGERS ARK IN USE LESS THAN SIX MILLION.

THE MARKET PENETRATION FOR PAGERS IS, BY BIGGEST AT 18% (180/1,000).

—

IN A

POPULATION

FAR, THE WORLD'S

OF

THIS IS OVER THREE-AND-A-HALF TIMES THE SIZE OF MARKET PENETRATION IN JAPAN, ALMOST FOUR-AND-A-HALF TIMES THE SIZE OF THE USA, 15 TIMES THE SIZE OF THE UK AND 24 TIMES THE SIZE OF EUROPE.

IN CELLULAR TELEPHONE SERVICES, HONG KONG IS CLEARLY THE WORLD LEADER, MR PAGLIARI SAID.

AT PRESENT, THERE ARE FIVE LICENSED OPERATORS OF CELLULAR TELEPHONE NETWORKS IN HONG KONG. THIS COMPARES WITH TWO IN THE UK, IN AUSTRALIA AND TWO IN ANY MAJOR AMERICAN CITY.

TWO

HE SAID THERE WERE AT PRESENT MORE THAN 236,000 SUBSCRIBERS WHICH GAVE A MARKET PENETRATION RATE WHICH WAS 60% HIGHER THAN IN THE USA, 70% HIGHER THAN IN THE UK, 163% HIGHER THAN IN EUROPE AND 223% HIGHER THAN IN JAPAN.

THIS MARKET PENETRATION MUST INCREASE NOW THAT HONG TWO DIGITAL NETWORKS IN OPERATION, HE SAID.

KONG HAS

/"I EXPECT