24-25  Communications and Internet Services
Item	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Postal Services
Letter Mail                    (100 million articles)	13.6	12.7	12.6	12.7	12.7
Parcels                                         (10 000 pcs)	92.3	92.8	94.6	93.8	92.7
Telephone Services①② (10 000 working lines)
Residential	216.1	213.4	211.9	211.8	211.6
Business	176.5	170.8	170.1	166.2	167.7
Total	392.6	384.2	382.0	378.0	379.3
Fax②                        (10 000 working lines)	41.1	54.6	49.1	45.6	41.0
External Telephone Traffic Volume
(10 000 minutes)
Outgoing③	348729	395090	423260	493653	563840
Incoming④	194235	175599	167620	203725	216752
External  Telex Traffic Volume
(10 000 minutes)
Outward	195.4	150.1	92.9	62.8	30.0
Inward	247.1	229.1	162.9	102.4	84.3
Transit	303.6	212.2	142.4	87.1	56.5
Internal Telex Traffic        (10 000 minutes)	530.7	294.9	206.9	178.8	120.9
Public Telegram Traffic⑤(10 000 messages)
Outward	1.2	0.7	0.5	-	-
Inward	0.5	0.4	0.2	-	-
Inland Telegram⑤     (10 000 messages)	0.3	0#	0#	-	-
Public Radio Paging Receivers②   (numbers)	253215	197405	177926	157695	131740
Public Mobile Radiotelephone Subscriber
Units②⑥⑦                                   (numbers)	4256422	4207465	4407569	4575069	4753916
	(5701686)	(6218984)	(7194335)	(8157960)	(8544255)
Internet Services
No. of Licensed Internet Service
Providers (ISPs)②	258	235	201	188	186
No. of Customers of Licensed (ISPs)②⑧
Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up
Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling
Cards)⑨	2018238	1371705	1084368	1003604	974873
Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up
Access	18569	14978	20411	9800	4800
Registered Customer Accounts with Leased
Line Access⑨	7066	3439	2739	2259	1925
Registered Broadband Internet Access
Customer Accounts⑨⑩	623302	989115	1230607	1484486	1648409
Internet Traffic Volume⑧
Customer Access via Public Switched
Telephone Networks⑪      (10 000 minutes)	1105581	555023	356394	189698	105954
Customer Access via Broadband
Networks⑪                                   (terabits)	73607	215296	933728	2949652	5392294
Notes : ①Figures inlcude direct dialing in lines, facsimile lines and Datel lines.  ②Figures are as at end of the year.
③Figures also 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.
⑦Figures include 3G mobile services starting from 2004.
⑧Estimated figures are based on the returns 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.
⑩Broadband means the capacity to transmit data at the rate of 1.5Mbps or above using family of Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL),
Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS), Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB), cable modem or other technologies.
⑪Not including customer access via leased circuits and broadband services.
"-"  Not applicable.              "0#" Magnitude less than half of the unit employed.