The graph shows average annual expenditures on cell phone and residential phone services between 2001 and 2010

The graph shows average annual expenditures on cell phone and residential phone services between 2001 and 2010
The line graph illustrates the average cost that American customers spent on mobile and landline
phone
services
annually over a 10-year period.
Overall
, spending on residential
phone
services
dramatically declined,
while
popularity
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the popularity
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of mobile
services
increased sharply throughout
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the
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decade.
Also
, both
of
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services
met
at
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the same record in 2006. In 2001, spending on mobile
phone
services
began by merely $200,
while
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expenditure
on
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residential
phone
services
was around $700. Over the following five years,
expenditure
on landline
phone
services
gradually dropped below $600,
whereas
expenditure
on cell
phone
services
rose to just over $500. In 2006 cell phones overtook landline phones, and the
services
became equal in popularity with customers' annual
expenditure
of about $550.
Then
, cell
phone
expenses rose to approximately $750 in 2010, making nearly a fourfold jump
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to its initial figure in 2001. Meanwhile, spending on residential
phone
services
experienced a steep fall in 2007 and went on to steadily decrease for the rest of the period.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • annual expenditures
  • cell phone services
  • residential phone services
  • steady increase
  • steady decrease
  • comparison
  • milestones
  • technological advancements
  • trends
  • speculating
  • paraphrasing
  • overview
  • notable changes
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