Communications and Internet Services - China Statistics Census

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 Services??(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
Fax? (10 000 working lines)	40.4	41.1	54.6	49.1	45.6
External Telephone Traffic Volume
(10 000 minutes)
Outgoing?	307488	348729	395090	423260	493653
Incoming?	185804	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 Traffic?(10 000 messages)
Outward	2.1	1.2	0.7	0.5	-
Inward	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.2	-
Inland Telegram? (10 000 messages)	0.1	0.3	0.005	0.007	-
Public Radio Paging Receivers?(numbers)	327768	253215	197405	177926	157695
Public Mobile Radiotelephone Subscriber
Units??? (numbers)	4173318	4256422	4207465	4407569	4575069
	-5234370	-5701686	-6218984	-7194335	-8157960
Internet Services
No. of Licensed Internet Service
Providers (ISPs)?	235	258	235	201	188
No. of Customers of Licensed Internet
Service Providers (ISPs)??
Registered Customer Accounts with Dial-up
Access (Excluding Internet Pre-paid Calling
Cards)?	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 Access?	11527	7066	3439	2739	2259
Registered Broadband Internet Access
Customer Accounts??(11)	392118	623302	989115	1230607	1484486
Internet Traffic Volume?
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 : ?Figures inlcude direct dialing in lines, facsimile lines and Datel lines. ?Figures are as at end of the year.
?Figures include facsimile and data. ?Estimated figures. ?Related service has been terminated since 1 January 2004.
?Excluding pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including prepaid SIM cards are presented in brackets.
?The figure of 2004 includes 3G mobile services.
?Estimated figures are based on the return from the ISPs and do not include users who are not customers of the licensed ISPs.
?Registered 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.
?Figures 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.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the National Bureau Of Statistics of the The Peoples Republic Of China and are subject to revision by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

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Revised 26-April-2006