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Information at Your Fingertips
The information age is providing Hong Kong with even faster ways
of doing business and disseminating data.
Hong Kong is a global communications hub with a fast, free and
unfettered flow of news, views and data.
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The first major city in the world to have a fully digitised
telephone network |
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As at Dec 2007, Hong Kong had more than 3.8 million exchange lines |
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One of the highest penetration rates for telephone and business
fax use in the world |
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One of the world’s highest penetration levels for mobile
phones (152%), the highest in the world |
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A regional broadcasting hub; 12 satellite broadcasters uplink signals from Hong Kong. Local terrestrial, satellite and cable operators offer a combined service of more than 300 channels including CNN International, CNBC, BBC World, ESPN, CCTV, MTV and many other channels targeting ethnic communities |
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Some 40 newspapers and almost 700 periodicals published in Hong Kong, which is home to about 90 international media organizations. The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Asian Wall Street Journal are printed in Hong Kong |
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More than 250 Internet Service Providers as at January 2008 |
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More than 700,000 IPTV subscribers where telecommunications operators offer triple-play products (telephony, broadband internet access and IPTV) |
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