The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in UK, divided into three categories, from 1995 – 2002.

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people in the UK spent on the telephone in three different categories from 1995 to 2002.

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, the national and international

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mobiles share the same rising pattern,

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there was a slight fluctuation in the

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UK citizens spent on the local telephone over a period from 1995 to 2002. At the beginning of the period, in 1995, the British spent 7000 billion

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calling by local-fixed line,

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the amount of

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for the national and international lines was haft of that. The mobile phone has little usage

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year, before increasing dramatically all the

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and reaching about 50 billion

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in 2002. Local calling was the most common way throughout the period and reached a peak in 1999 at 90 billion

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, at which point there was a gradual drop

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the popularity of the other 2 categories.