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APPENDICES

Table 40

(Chapter 17: Communications, the Media and Information Technology) Communications and Internet Services

Postal services

Letter mail (million articles)

Parcels (thousands)

Telecommunications and Internet Services

Telephone lines (thousands)

Business

Residential

Total

1998

2002

2003

I 257

1 274*

1 125

928*

1 270

946

1 549

1 708

1 701

2 159

2 134

2 119

3 708

3 842

3 820

360

546

491

563

566*

420

[440]

87

620*

[916]*

29

3 951

236*

561 # 647# [1 056]# 26#

4 233

201

Number of fax lines (thousand working lines) Telephone lines per 1 000 population

Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers

per 1 000 population(1)

Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000 population Outward external telephone traffic (million minutes) Number of licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Number of customers of the licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Registered customer accounts with dial-up(2)

access (thousands)

Registered broadband Internet access customer

accounts (thousands)

1 719

133

1 372

1 084

989

1 231

Internet traffic volume

Customer access via public switched telephone

5 359

5 550

3 564

networks(3) (million minutes)

Customer access via broadband networks (terabits)

215 296

933 728

Notes: (1) Excluding pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including pre-paid SIM cards are presented in square brackets.

(2) Excluding Internet pre-paid calling cards.

(3) Excluding customer access via leased circuits.

Sources: Hong Kong Post.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2921 2231)

Office of the Telecommunications Authority.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 6652)