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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 59

(Chapter 19: Communications, the Media and IT)

Communications and Internet Services

1999

2000

2001

Postal traffic

Letter mail (million articles)

Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong

Posted for local delivery

Received from places outside Hong Kong for

local delivery

In transit

Parcels (thousands)

135.4

133.6

130.6

1 049.3

1 121.8 *

1 151.0

83.6

85.1

78.0

0.5

0.7

0.7

Posted to destinations outside Hong Kong

620

568

533

Posted for local delivery

48

54

42

Received from places outside Hong Kong for

330

327

319

local delivery

In transit

29

26

29

Telecommunications traffic

Telephones services

Telephone lines (thousands)

Telephone lines per 1 000 population**

3.839

3 946

3 926

578*

588*

583

Number of telephones (thousands)

4 910

5 020

4 941

Number of telephones per 100 population'

**

74.0*

74.8*

73.4

Fax lines (thousands)

384

404

411

Effective exchange capacity (thousand lines)

4 196

4 480

4 512

Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers per

549.9*

1 000 population**(1)

(601.1)*

Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000 population**

51.5*

621.8* (779.9)* 48.8*

632.3 (846.9) 37.6

External telecommunications traffic

Outward (thousand minutes)

Inward (thousand minutes)

Telecommunications licences (all types)

2 550 112

1 679 222

3 074 885

1 858 046

3 487 291

1 942 347

105 604

109 345

115 334

Internet Services

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

licensed Internet service providers (2)

With dial-up access (excluding Internet

pre-paid calling cards)

159

235

259

1 734 254

With broadband Internet access (3)

With leased line access

7 495

2 283 047 392 118

11 527

2018 238 623 302 7066

Internet usage

Customer access via public switched

10 923 116

14 988 592

11 055 810

telephone networks (thousand minutes)

Customer access via broadband networks (4)

2.909

73 607

(terabits)

Notes: ** The Population Census conducted in March 2001 provides a benchmark for revising the population figures compiled since the 1996 Population By-census. In this table, population-related figures from 1999 to 2000 have been revised accordingly. As a result, such statistics presented in this edition of the publication may be different from those presented in earlier editions.

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