
Telecommunication in Hong Kong
Compared to the United States, Hong Kong is at the forefront of the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +852, there were a total of 27.74 million connections in 2021. Among them were 23.94 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 3.2 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 870,041 webhosts, Hong Kong is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 528,380 of these, or about 61 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 198.53 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Hong Kong ranks 8th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 139.39 Mbit/second (5th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Hong Kong comes 37th with a download speed of 54.17 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 12 Mbit was only enough for 51st place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2023 from 180 countries.
This is how much a mobile phone contract costs in Hong Kong
Every year, the International Telecommunication Union calculates for many countries what a mobile phone contract costs to use. A monthly budget averaging US$ 11.80 was calculated Hong Kong in 2021. Compared to the previous year, this amount increased by 1 cents.The ITU refers to the costs for monthly use and includes 140 telephony minutes, 70 text messages and a data transfer of 2 GBytes. The transfer speed should be the minimum of a 3G connection, i.e. at least UMTS, which is already outdated in many parts of the world. 2 GBytes do not sound much. However, this is already quite a high consumption in a worldwide comparison. If one does not take a fixed amount in US dollars, but converts it to the economic output per inhabitant, a user in Hong Kong spends 0.26% of his gross national income on mobile telephony. Worldwide, this rate is around 6.6 percent.
In the USA, the monthly cost was around $41.80.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Hong Kong from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Hong Kong 1998 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
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Distribution in 2021 | Hong Kong Total | Hong Kong percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Internet users | 6.90 m | 93.09 % | 304.52 m | 91.75 % |
Broadband users | 2.94 m | 39.60 % | 125.89 m | 37.93 % |
Landlines | 3.80 m | 51.32 % | 97.82 m | 29.47 % |
Mobile cellulars | 23.94 m | 322.94 % | 361.66 m | 108.97 % |