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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 48

(Chapter 21: Communications and the Media)

Communications

1992

1993

1994 Estimate

Postal traffic:

Letter mail (million articles)

Posted to destinations abroad

Posted for local delivery

Received from abroad for local delivery In transit

Parcels (thousands)

Posted to destinations abroad

Posted for local delivery

Received from abroad for local delivery In transit

Telecommunications traffic:

Telephone services

Effective capacity (thousand exchange lines)

Keylines and PABX lines (thousands) Fax lines (thousands)

Telephone lines (thousands)

Number of telephones (thousands)

Number of telephones per 100 population

International telephone and fax services

Outward (thousand minutes) Inward (thousand minutes)

Number of outgoing calls (millions)

Number of international telephone circuits

142.2

150.9

165.9

742.7

781.3

839.6

91.0

96.9

101.6

3.0

2.4

2.2

1 257

1 097

46

53

84

507

483

40

53

1 147

500

47

3.004

3 139

3 280

407

440

468

183

226

252

2777

2956

3 111

3 649* 62.8*

4 047

66.8

1 079 489

955 726* 335.85 17 641

3 854* 65.1*

1 319 043

1 200 050*

418.55 24 242 1 730

1 540 503

1 417 302

498.53 27 987

Number of international leased circuits

1 610

1 806

International telegraph services

Outward (thousand messages)

280

219

168

Inward (thousand messages)

362

298

231

Transit (thousand messages)

121

108

148

Number of international telegraph circuits

2 844

2 655

2 445

International telex services

Outward (thousand minutes)

20 322

18 559

17 785

Inward (thousand minutes)

22 627

20 503

17 506

Transit (thousand minutes)

20 027

18 465

Number of telex trunks

2 259

2 187

15 885 2058

Radio pictures transmissions

Transmitted

Received

Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)

Press

Meteorological

Telecommunications licences (all types)

Note:

* Estimate.

+ Customer terminated its service w.e.f. August 1992.

99

121

19

0.4 + 106.5

103.6

103.2

83 983

89 861

96 613

523