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The chat below show the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995 to 2002.

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The bar chart depicts the total of minutes of phone conversations that were made on local, mobile, national and international calls in the United Kingdom within the period of 8 years.It was measured in tons. To start with, the figure of minutes of phone calls for the three methods followed the same pattern over the given years.In the year 1995,the use of fixed lines stood at around 74
billion
.
This
 was followed by a steady increase till 1999 when it reached a peak at 90
billion
.
Thereafter
,there was a gradual decrease in the statistic of its usage from 2000 to 2002 at about 85
billion
 and nearly 74
billion
 (almost the same minutes that were recorded in 1995) respectively. Moving to fixed line,the usage of national and international means of communication rose gradually within the space of eight years (1995 to 2002) from nearly 40
billion
 to just above 60
billion
.In the same manner, the total sum of mobile calls
also
 experienced a gradual increase till the year 2002 when it reached a plateau of about 45
billion
,
although
 it was the least patronized.
Overall
,it can be seen that usage of all three means of communication had a marked improvement throughout the entire period.
However
, local
call
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 remained the most commonly used
while
 mobiles were the least.
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