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The chart below shows the total numbers of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories from 1995 to 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the total numbers of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories from 1995 to 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The total amount of calling duration used by telephoning categories in the UK is illustrated in the bar chart
in
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 the period of 7 years from 1995 to 2002. 3 different calling types mentioned include local – fixed
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, national and international – fixed
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, and mobile calls. All
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 are measured in
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 minutes. It can be clearly seen from the column graph that calling time by local fixed
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, the majority
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 in three calling types, had fluctuated remarkably between 1995 and 2002 and in the year
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2002, the figure was the same as the one at the starting point; meanwhile, both national and international fixed
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 and mobiles calls had been increasing gradually. At that starting point in 1995, the total telephoning time used by local fixed
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 was above 70 billion minutes, which was
doubled
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 the one used by national and international
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line
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. In the first 4 years from 1995 to 1999, local calls experienced a slight increase and peaked at 90 billion minutes in 1999, followed by a
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 drop
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 the beginning of the
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 century. Between 1995 and 1999, the number of calls used by national and international cables and mobiles grew
up of
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 approximately
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10%. Since 1999, calling times by mobiles have
been
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soared significantly;
whereas
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 national and international
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line
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 kept rising slowly.

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