The graph below shows consumers' average annual expenditure on cell phone, national and international fixed-line and services in America between 2001 and 2010.

The graph below illustrates the money allocated annually on Cell phone communication, National and International

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and

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for a certain country over a 10-year period.

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, the for Cell phone

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had a significant rise. Meanwhile, National

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figures dropped sharply. In 2001, standing at 700$, the spending on National

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services

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tripled the money for mobile phones and International

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at 200$ and 250$ respectively. Over the 2 years,

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the expenditure for International

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increased slightly, the expense for communicating by handheld devices, which was the lowest at the starting point, surpassed the International landline at 330$ in 2003. In the following years, there was a remarkable climb in the amount of money for Cell phones and it surpassed local

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at 550 before rocketing up to 750$ in 2010.

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, The National

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dropped 300 dollars from the highest down to 400$

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of the given period. Strikingly,

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a slight fluctuation during the first three years, the budget for International remained almost [[unchanged (adj) / stable] from 2001 to 2010 at 300$.