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.

Overall

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

fixed-line

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fixed line

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had an increasing slope, as did

the

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mobile calls.

Nevertheless

, 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

year

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

year

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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the

last

year

, 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

year

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

centurey

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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.