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40. Summary of Licences Issued:

Broadcast Receiving Licences

Radio Dealers

42,606 278

Ship Stations

Aircraft Stations

Schools of Wireless Telegraphy Experimental Wireless Stations Press Receiving Stations

Amateur Wireless Stations

Private Business Wireless (V.H.F.)

Radio Distribution Stations

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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41. TELEPHONES. The Hong Kong Telephone Company, Limited provides a Public Telephone Service which covers Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories including Cheung Chow Island, and serves both the general public and the Hong Kong Government.

42. At 31st March, 1953, the total number of direct exchange lines working on the Company's system was 25,877 and the number of extensions 13,039, making a total of 38,916 stations compared with 35,452 in the previous year.

43. The essential equipment for development continues to arrive and it is hoped that expansions to existing Main and Rural exchanges will be completed before November, 1953. Further extensions to Main exchanges are on order and are expected to be ready for service in 1954.

OTHER COMMUNICATIONS

44. Cable and Wireless Limited are responsible for all telegraphic services, and, in conjunction with the Hong Kong Telephone Company links with China, Mecao, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, U.S.A., Canada, the United Kingdom and Western Europe, Singapore, Malaya, Jesselton, Bangkok, Indonesia (Bandung and Djakarta), Australia and New Zealand. A short range ship-to-shore radio telephone service is also operated.

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