| 24-25 Communications and Internet Services | ||||||
| Item | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Postal Services | ||||||
| Letter Mail (100 million articles) | 13.4 | 13.6 | 12.7 | 12.6 | 12.7 | |
| Parcels (10 000 pcs) | 97.5 | 92.3 | 92.8 | 94.6 | 93.8 | |
| Telephone Services①②(10 000 working lines) | ||||||
| Residential | 221.0 | 216.1 | 213.4 | 211.9 | 211.8 | |
| Business | 173.6 | 176.5 | 170.8 | 170.1 | 166.2 | |
| Total | 394.6 | 392.6 | 384.2 | 382.0 | 378.0 | |
| Fax② (10 000 working lines) | 40.4 | 41.1 | 54.6 | 49.1 | 45.6 | |
| External Telephone Traffic Volume | ||||||
| (10 000 minutes) | ||||||
| Outgoing③ | 307489 | 348729 | 395090 | 423260 | 493653 | |
| Incoming④ | 185805 | 194235 | 175599 | 167620 | 203725 | |
| External Telex Traffic Volume | ||||||
| (10 000 minutes) | ||||||
| Outward | 304.7 | 195.4 | 150.1 | 92.9 | 62.8 | |
| Inward | 323.1 | 247.1 | 229.1 | 162.9 | 102.4 | |
| Transit | 362.9 | 303.6 | 212.2 | 142.4 | 87.1 | |
| Internal Telex Traffic (10 000 minutes) | 698.9 | 530.7 | 294.9 | 206.9 | 178.8 | |
| Public Telegram Traffic⑤(10 000 messages) | ||||||
| Outward | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | - | |
| Inward | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | - | |
| Inland Telegram⑤ (10 000 messages) | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.005 | 0.007 | - | |
| Public Radio Paging Receivers②(numbers) | 327768 | 253215 | 197405 | 177926 | 157695 | |
| Public Mobile Radiotelephone Subscriber | ||||||
| Units②⑥⑦ (numbers) | 4173318 | 4256422 | 4207465 | 4407569 | 4575069 | |
| (5234370) | (5701686) | (6218984) | (7194335) | (8157960) | ||
| Internet Services | ||||||
| No. of Licensed Internet Service | ||||||
| Providers (ISPs)② | 235 | 258 | 235 | 201 | 188 | |
| No. of Customers of Licensed Internet | ||||||
| Service Providers (ISPs)②⑧ | ||||||
| Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up | ||||||
| Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling | ||||||
| Cards)⑨ | 2283047 | 2018238 | 1371705 | 1084368 | 1003604 | |
| Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up | ||||||
| Access | 38708 | 18569 | 14978 | 20411 | 9800 | |
| Registered Customer Accounts with Leased | ||||||
| Line Access⑨ | 11527 | 7066 | 3439 | 2739 | 2259 | |
| Registered Broadband Internet Access | ||||||
| Customer Accounts⑨⑩(11) | 392118 | 623302 | 989115 | 1230607 | 1484486 | |
| Internet Traffic Volume⑧ | ||||||
| Customer Access via Public Switched | ||||||
| Telephone Networks(12) (10 000 minutes) | 1498859 | 1105581 | 555023 | 356394 | 189698 | |
| Customer Access via Broadband | ||||||
| Networks(11)(13) (terabits) | 2909 | 73607 | 215296 | 933728 | 2949652 | |
| Notes : ①Figures inlcude direct dialing in lines, facsimile lines and Datel lines. ②Figures are as at end of the year. | ||||||
| ③Figures include facsimile and data. ④Estimated figures. ⑤Related service has been terminated since 1 January 2004. | ||||||
| ⑥Excluding pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in brackets. | ||||||
| ⑦The figure of 2004 includes 3G mobile services. | ||||||
| ⑧Estimated figures are based on the return from the ISPs and do not include users who are not customers of the licensed ISPs. | ||||||
| ⑨Registered customer accounts refer to the customer accounts of ISPs (including those free-of-charge customer accounts). For a registered | ||||||
| customer account which has more than one user login ID, it is counted as one registered customer account only. Figures do not include | ||||||
| customer accounts which are provided with e-mail addresses only. | ||||||
| ⑩Figures were first available in February 2000. | ||||||
| (11)Broadband Internet access refers to services with downloading speed of 1 Mbps or above using cable modem, ATM (asynchronous | ||||||
| transfer mode), ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line), DSL (digital subscriber line) or other technologies. | ||||||
| (12)Not including customer access via leased circuits and broadband services. | ||||||
| (13)Figures were first available in November 2000. | ||||||