香港—資訊社會 - 「數碼21」資訊科技策略

Radio Paging and OtherTelecommunications Services5.15 着 5.15 Along with technological advancement,business in Internet services and externaltelecommunications services expanded steadily inrecent years. On the other hand, radio pagingservices experienced a business decline because of 387 the continual shift of customers to the mobile phone243 services. The number of establishments renderingradio paging and other telecommunications servicesdecreased from 387 in 2002 to 243 in 2007.83 Moreover, the number of public radio paging 206 service licences has also decreased.Notwithstanding this, the overall business receiptsand other income of this sub-group still registered40 153 considerable growth over the past 10 years,increasing from $8.3 billion in 1997 to $20.6 billion48 5.1 5.4in 2007. Meanwhile, the operating expenses of thesub-group went up steadily from $4.0 billion in1997 to $15.3 billion in 2007 in face of the fiercemarket competition and increasing customerdemand for quality services. In 2007, the valueadded of the sub-group was $4.8 billion.(Tables 5.1 and 5.4) External Telecommunications Services5.16 5.16 Apart from local telephone services, externaltelephone services are accessible by customersthrough local fixed network operators and othernetwork operators such as mobile phone service 76.6 23.4 5.5 operators. In 2008, a total of 7.66 billion minutesof outgoing traffic volume and 2.34 billion minutesof incoming traffic volume were recorded.(Table 5.5)79Hong Kong as an Information Society 2009