Hong Kong Phone Cards

 

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This is what you need to know when you buy phone cards:

Connection Fee
Connection fee or first minute surcharge is charged when a call is connected. The charge varies between different service providers. If you make few long duration calls this charge is usually insignificant, but if you make frequent short duration calls you should look for a card with low or no connection fee.

Maintenance Fee
The maintenance fee is charged on weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis, after the first use.  If you intend to buy a card and use it in short time this charge is not significant, but if you intend to make few calls and keep your card for a long time you should choose a low maintenance fee card or no-maintenance fee card.

Minutes Rounding
Minutes rounding is the basic unit to record the length of the phone call. This varies between service providers and products. Cards may come with 1 second, 30 second or even 3 or 6 minute rounding. You should keep attention to phone card minutes rounding so you buy a card that fits you calling patterns.

Hong Kong Telecommunication*

Telephones - main lines in use:	3.839 million (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	3.7 million (December 1999)
Telephone system:	general assessment: modern facilities provide excellent domestic and international services domestic: microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network 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
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 7, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:	4 (plus two repeaters) (1997)
Internet country code:	.hk
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	17 (2000)
Internet users:	4.35 million (2002)

*Hong Kong telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook. 

 

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