22-26 COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

Item

1990

1995

1996

1997

1998

Postal Services

 

 

 

 

 

Letter Mail (million articles)

868

1165

1175

1273

1257

Parcels (thousands)

1996

1869

1677

1425

1125

Telephone Services (thousand working lines)

 

 

 

 

 

Residential

1626

1966

2028

2098

2159

Business

821

1288

1374

1526

1549

Total

2447

3254

3402

3624

3708

FAX (thousand working lines)

107

273

308

343

360

Extend Telephone Traffic Volume (thousand minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

Outgoing

694504

1668283

1737513

1738236

1718519

Incoming

612863

1540767

1844556

2120480

1957619

Extend Telex Traffic Volume (thousand minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

Outgoing

26682

17706

15637

8652

6119

Incoming

31300

14330

11652

8724

5758

Transit

25765

11003

9697

10976

7713

Internal Telex Traffic(thousand minutes)

27196

20643

18641

17148

13131

Public Telegram Traffic (thousand messages)

 

 

 

 

 

Outgoing

393

89

72

52

37

Incoming

407

76

49

34

20

Inland Telegram (thousand messages)

8

12

14

11

9

Public Radio Paging Receivers(numbers)

711420

1323741

1089904

932854

571800

Public Mobile Radio Telephone Subscriber Units (numbers)

133912

687600

1210680

2085600

2858100

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes: Figures are as at end of the year.

 

 

 

 

 

Including facsimile and data.