24-26  Communications and Internet Services
Item	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Postal Services
Letter Mail                         (100 million articles)	12.7	12.6	12.7	12.7	13.2
Parcels                                             (10 000 pcs)	92.8	94.6	93.8	92.7	92.9
Telephone Services①②(10 000 working lines)
Residential	213.4	211.9	211.8	211.6	213.5
Business	170.8	170.1	166.2	167.7	170.1
Total	384.2	382.0	378.0	379.3	383.6
Fax②                      (10 000 working lines)	54.6	49.1	45.6	41.0	37.5
External Telephone Traffic Volume
(10 000 minutes)
Outgoing③	395090	423260	493653	563840	654220
Incoming④	175599	167620	203725	216752	223301
External  Telex Traffic Volume
(10 000 minutes)
Outward	150.1	92.9	62.8	30.0	18.6
Inward	229.1	162.9	102.4	84.3	57.7
Transit	212.2	142.4	87.1	56.5	35.9
Internal Telex Traffic               (10 000 minutes)	294.9	206.9	178.8	120.9	85.9
Public Telegram Traffic⑤(10 000 messages)
Outward	0.7	0.5	-	-	-
Inward	0.4	0.2	-	-	-
Inland Telegram⑤          (10 000 messages)	0#	0#	-	-	-
Public Radio Paging Receivers② (numbers)	197405	177926	157695	131740	123102
Public Mobile Subscriber Units②⑥⑦
(numbers)	4207465	4407569	4575069	4753916	5153303
	(6218984)	(7194335)	(8157960)	(8544255)	(9444140)
Internet Services
No. of Licensed Internet Service
Providers (ISPs)②             (numbers)	234*	201	188	186	181
No. of Customers of Licensed ISPs②⑧
(numbers)
Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up
Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling
Cards)⑨	1371705	1084368	1003604	974873	945193
Internet Pre-paid Calling Cards for Dial-up
Access	14978	20411	9800	4800	1000
Registered Customer Accounts with Leased
Line Access⑨	3439	2739	2259	1925	1641
Registered Broadband Internet Access
Customer Accounts⑨⑩	989115	1230607	1484486	1648409	1744420
Internet Traffic Volume⑧
Customer Access via Public Switched
Telephone Networks⑪    (10 000 minutes)	555023	356394	189698	105954	61860
Customer Access via Broadband
Networks⑪                                          (terabits)	215296	933728	2949652	5392294	7794032
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.