The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in millions) of telephone calls in Finland, divided into three categories, from 1995 – 2004.

The bar chart provides information about the Finnish residents who spent millions of

minutes

on telephone calls

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types between 1995 and 2004. In general, it can be seen that even though the popularity of the local landline has decreased, it has been the most preferred calling platform of the three given categories by the given period.

To begin

with, local landline calls were the highest throughout the period, rising from 12000

million

minutes

in 1995 to over 16000

million

in 2001. After peaking at around 17000

million

in that year, these calls had fallen back to the 1995 amount by 2004. Turning to National and International landline calls, 6000

million

minutes

were recorded in 1995 and

then

grew steadily to 10500

million

at the end

of the period,

although

the growth slowed down in the

last

two years. There was

also

a dramatic increase in mobile calls from 250 to 9800

million

minutes

.

This

increase was particularly noticeable between 2000 and 2004

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when mobile phone use tripled.