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IRAN STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 1397 13. COMMUNICATIONS Introduction C ommunication is among significant The statistics of this chapter were revised by the development infrastructures in every country. Since Ministry of Information and Communications in the two last decades, the highest development in the the year 1393. countries has taken place in the communities that Telecommunications: Data for telecommunications have had the most advances in the communication have been produced as registers by the related sector. The Impacts of information and departments since the year 1337, and collected and communications technologies were so deep that disseminated in the statistical yearbook by the theoreticians could try to interpret these modern Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI) since the year 1345. developments through theories of information Statistics of this chapter were revised by the society and network society. Ministry of Communications and Information Communications play a significant role in the Technology in the year1393. economic development of the country towards the Information technology (IT): In the year 1393, the vision of a knowledge-based economy. Due to the data related to IT have been included in the increasing significance of the issue, a separate statistical yearbook. The related statistical data are chapter has been allocated to communications in available from the year 1392 on. the statistical yearbook since the year 1393. Due to Statistical Centre of Iran implemented the survey this reason, the time series of some tables are not in on Internet users among the nation’s households in an 8- year form. the years 1387 and 1389. In the year 1392, the The statistics presented in this chapter are related to Survey on "ICT Use by Households and communications and information technology. Individuals" ordered by Information Technology Below you will find a brief history of statistics Organization (ITO) as the organization responsible production in each area. for developing and monitoring the ICT indicators Post: Data for the post have been produced as systems in the country was designed and registers by post offices since the year 1337, and implemented in collaboration with the Statistical collected and disseminated in the statistical Research and Training Centre (SRTC). In the year yearbook by the SCI since the year 1345. 1394 and 1396, the survey entitled "Households and Individuals Access to ICT" was implemented, 511 13. COMMUNICATIONS I RAN STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 1397 the related information of which is presented in this management of the post company. This unit is called the post and telecommunications office. chapter. Postbox: the smallest postal unit installed and used in the public thoroughfares (whether cities or Definitions and concepts villages), and these units are used only for ordinary mail, and the sender drops his or her stamped letter Postal units: Places where postal services are into it. rendered. Public post counter: these units were established Government postal units: The units providing with the purpose of accelerating and facilitating the postal services run and managed by staff of the Post rendering of public and non-public services. In addition to rendering postal services by presenting Company. electronic services, the physical counter makes Non-government postal units: providers of postal government organizations closer to people’s services run and managed by non-government workplaces and living places. (1) Rural ICT offices: are offices that provide at least sector (post counter offices, rural ICT offices, one of the telecommunication, postal, Post Bank, IT etc…). services as well as services of other government Post General Department and Post Department: institutions to the public in rural areas. Postal mails: whatever that is dispatchable main postal unit is located in the capital of Ostans physically including personal writings, documents or Shahrestans or in one of the postal districts of such as printed texts, manuscripts, goods, things, Tehran, where all postal operations and services are financial papers and drafts, notifications and carried out. notices with sending and receiving addresses that the address is included on the envelope of the mail. Urban governmental post office: postal units Ordinary mail: parcels, without registration in located in all urban areas which perform operations computer systems, stuck with a postage stamp/ relating to receipt, preparation, dispatch, and copy of a stamp or within a contract, are collected from public post boxes or clients’ home/workplace delivery of mail, as well as the sale of postal and after sorting and preparation for distribution, securities. they are delivered to receivers’ addresses. The main Rural governmental post office: in certain rural parcels are as follows: letters, postal cards, printed areas qualified for rendering postal services, units matters, special bags, brochures, notifications, bills, called "rural post offices" are established to render and so on. services to a number of adjacent villages. Registered mail: a mail which is received in post Postal agency: in rural areas or suburbs where the offices or clients’ home/workplace and in lieu of it establishment of a postal unit is not economical, a a mailing receipt is issued for the sender; a postal postal agency is established. These units are run by barcode is affixed to the mail so that all operational one of the local trustworthy people (usually, a local processes can be registered and tracked in the businessman) under a contract. computerized system. Also, when the mail is Joint post and telecommunications office: in a delivered to the receiver, he/she signs for the item. number of operating telecommunications or post Main mails are as follows: letters, printed matters, units within the suburbs or rural areas, mixed postal small parcels, and special bags. and telecommunications services are rendered by a Express mail service (EMS): a mail which is person tasked with this responsibility under the received in post offices or clients’ home/workplace to be dispatched and delivered to the receiver and 1. Information and Communication Technologies. 512 IRAN STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 1397 13. COMMUNICATIONS in lieu of it, a mailing receipt is given to the sender connections by access to/through mobile phone and and a postal barcode is affixed to the mail so that all system of radio transmission. operational processes can be registered and tracked Mobile phone penetration rate: is the number of in the computerized system. Also, when the mail is active postpaid and prepaid mobile phones per 100 delivered to the receiver, he/she signs for the item. people. Main express mails are as follows: Packages Coverage of mobile in main roads: is the number containing documents and parcels containing of kilometers of the main roads where merchandises. communication through mobile phone with at least Hand-to-hand mail: is a service in which a mail is one operator is possible and the basis of the received in post offices or clients’ home/workplace communication information is the Ministry of to be sent in a special manner and in lieu of it, a Roads and Urban Development and is related to the mailing receipt is given and a postal barcode is commitments indicated in the contents of the affixed to the mail so that all operational processes licence of operators. can be registered and tracked in the computerized Villages with fixed telephone lines: are the number system. Also, when the mail is delivered to the of villages where fixed telephone communications receiver, he/she signs for the item. In this service, for their inhabitants with public telecommunication the destination of the mail is specified by the client, networks are run by using telecommunication and its operational processes are done in a particular equipment and facilities. Information is based on manner and service duration (reception and the definition of the village provided by the distribution of the mail) is carried out in determined Ministry of the Interior. time intervals. At present, the area of this service is Internet: the global public computer network that divided into four groups in terms of destination: provides access to a number of communicative urban group, inter-city group of intra-Ostan, and services such as the world wide web, e-mail, news, inter-city group in neighboring Ostans and inter- information, data, media, etc,. city group in non-neighboring Ostans. Households having computers: the number of Measurement of registered mail service, EMS, and these households is obtained by surveys. This hand to hand mail service is obtained by registers. indicator stands for desktop computers, laptop In order to measure ordinary mail service, sampling computers, tablets and small computers such as methods, and estimation of the number of mails per PDA (2). This definition excludes mobile phones. month are used. Households having Internet access at their home: Population coverage of each postal unit: Total refers to the households who have Internet access in population of the country divided by the number of their houses. In this definition, access to Internet operating postal units (public and private sector). services from every device is considered. This Installed telephone: a telephone line whose device can be a computer, mobile phone, game essential equipment is installed, but not yet supplied console, or digital TV (IP-TV), etc. Internet access to the customer. can be through a fixed telephone network or mobile Telephone in use: a telephone line, which is phone. supplied to a customer, to make calls through it. Population using the computer: refers to the Active mobile phone subscribers: active permanent population who uses personal computers in and prepaid mobile phone numbers in operators’ different places (home, school, and place of work). network without attaching to a specific place and Population using the Internet: refers to the number through using accessibility facilities provide mobile of Internet users. In this definition, an Internet user phone subscribers with telecommunication is a person who has been using the Internet for the last three months through any device (this 2.