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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 59

(Chapter 19: Communications, the Media and IT)

Communications and Internet Services

1998

1999

2000

Postal traffic

Letter mail (million articles)

Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong

Posted for local delivery

141.5

135.4

133.6

1 026.0

1 049.3

1 121.6

Received from places outside Hong Kong for

local delivery

88.6

83.6

85.1

In transit

0.6

0.5

0.7

Parcels (thousands)

Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong

675

620

Posted for local delivery

63

Received from places outside Hong Kong for

local delivery

357

In transit

30

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568

48

54

330

327

26

Telecommunications traffic

Telephones services

Telephone lines (thousands)

3 708

Telephone lines per 1 000 population**

554.3

3 839*

567.7

3 946

574.7

Number of telephones (thousands)

4 763

4 910*

5 020

Number of telephones per 100 population**

71.2

72.6

73.1

Fax lines (thousands)

360

384*

404

Effective exchange capacity (thousand lines)

3.992

4 196*

4 480

Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers per

1 000 population**@

413.8

(443.3)

Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000 population**

85.5

439.8 (590.1) 54.6

607.9 (762.4) 47.7

External telecommunications traffic

Outward (thousand minutes)

1 718 519

2 550 112*

3 074 885

Inward (thousand minutes)

1 957 619

1 679 222*

1 858 046

Number of international leased circuits

Telecommunications licences (all types)

2310

105 787

2 306*

105 604

2 243

109 345

Internet Services

Number of licensed Internet service providers Number of registered customer accounts of

licensed Internet service providers

With dial-up access (excluding Internet

pre-paid calling cards)

With leased line access

Internet usage (thousand minutes)

133

159

235

5 359 015

1 734 254 7 495

10 923 116

2 283 047

11 527

14 988 592

Notes: ** Since August 2000, the "resident population" approach has been adopted in place of the "extended de facto" approach for compiling Hong Kong population figures. Revised population figures backdated to 1996 have been compiled. In this table, population-related figures are compiled based on the new approach. Notwithstanding the change, they are broadly comparable with those of earlier years.

@ Excluding Prepaid SIM cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in brackets.

* Revised figure.

Sources: Hongkong Post.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2921 2231)

Office of the Telecommunications Authority. (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 6652)