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

The multiple-bar chart here is to compare the rate of different types of telecommunication use over the time period of 1995-2002.

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, it can be said that national and international phone calls by the conventional

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fixed line

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had an increasing slope, as did

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mobile calls.

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, the local calls by fixed line was experiencing a falling slope

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the second half of the period under study. Local calls, by fixed line, had increased until 1999 - from a bit more than 70 billion minutes to 90 billion minutes. From that

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on, it was decreasing to reach the exact amount of time spent on the phone at the beginning, the

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1995. National and international calls and

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mobile ones have both experienced a steady rise all over the 7 years under analysis. The growth of mobile phoning was much sharper though, from a trivial use at the beginning to almost 45 billion minutes

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, about 20 times more. The most important feature of the graph is that local phone calls and the calls on

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cellular phones have made maximum and minimum consumption of telecommunication respectively, for every single

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between 1995 and 2002. Apart from the years in the new

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century

, the 21st, in which the local calls experienced a decline, all call forms had been growing in use by 1999.