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March 8, 2014
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1 Introduction
Communications in Hong Kong

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Telephones - main lines in use
3.820 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular
8.076 million (Nov 2004)

Telephone system
modern facilities provide excellent domestic and international services
<br>domestic
microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network
<br>international
satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); coaxial cable to Guangzhou, China; access to 5 international submarine cables providing connections to ASEAN member nations, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Middle East, and Western Europe

  • Major fixed-line operators: Pacific Century Cyber Works


  • Major cellular operators: Orange (company)|Orange, SmarTone, Sunday, Peoples, New World, CSL


  • 3G Licensees: 3 (telecommunications)|3 (owned by Hutchison), CSL, SmarTone, Sunday


The telecommunication industry was deregulated in 1995. Competition in this sector is fierce. You can get 10Mbps up and down unlimited VDSL, telephone line rental, unlimited local calls, and 100 minutes of international calls for US$25/month. Telephone line rental and unlimited local calls is only US$3/month.




Radio broadcast stations
AM 7, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios
4.45 million (1997)




Television broadcast stations
4 (plus two repeaters) (1997)

Televisions
1.84 million (1997)

  • Phoenix TV





Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
188 (Dec 2004)

  • Dial-up access accounts: 1.007 million (Nov 2004)

  • Broadband Internet access accounts: 1.472 million (Nov 2004)


Country codes|Country code (Top-level domain) .hk



  • Media in Hong Kong

  • Newspapers of Hong Kong

  • Hong Kong

  • Communications in China

  • List of Chinese language television channels


Category:Communications by country|Hong Kong
Category:Hong Kong category:Communications in Hong Kong|

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Communications in Hong Kong".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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