Online Services

• Basic broadband services are available for MOP 160 (US$19.93) per month with each hour costing MOP 2.8 (US$0.35).
• In 2000, the Internet services market was liberalized with the government accepting applications for the provisional license of Internet service from 1 October. The regulation on the provision of Internet services was finalized on 24 October.
• In October itself, 12 licenses for Internet Services were issued.
• Most of the licensees provide Web application or database-hosting services, with Compendia Chinese 2000 Online (Macau) limited offering some competition to CTM in dial-up Internet access.
• Long-time dial-up ISP Macau Web stopped offering dial-up service from 12 September 2002.
• As of October 2002, there were 29,900 registered dial-up users who were online for a total of 1,046,016 hours.
• In 2002, CTM was the only provider of broadband services in Macau.
• In July 2002, the total number of hours spent online via dial-up and broadband was about equal, at around 1,200,000 hours each. However, by October 2002, 15,496 broadband subscribers used 450,000 more hours than dialup sovereignty, and an agreement on its renewal was reached on 19 October 1999.
• Accordingly to the July 2002 Network Wizards' Internet Domain Survey, there are only 152 Internet hosts under the ".mo" domain with 57 third-level domains registered.
• Currently, there are no annual fees for third level domain names under ".mo" - only a single application fee of MOP 200 (US$25) per domain name is charged to cover administration costs.
• Primary names servers for any third-level domain name must be operated within Macau, and individual domain names are not available under ".mo".

Source: Digital Review for Asia Pacific