The graph below shows consumers’ average annual expenditure on cell phones, national and international fixed-line services in America between 2001 and 2010.
The given line graph illustrates the proportion of spending on mobile phones, inside and outside
fixed-line
services
in the USA from 2001 to 2010.Units are measured in dollars
.
Overall
, it is obvious that the percentage of cell phone services
showed an upward trend throughout the period, whereas
the number of services
, which are focused on national fixed-line
, dropped significantly in the same period.On the contrary
, spending on international fixed-line
services
demonstrated a slight rise between 2001 and 2010.
In more detail, regarding foreign fixed-line
services
, it was at approximately 250 million
of
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dollars
at the start of the period , before the index began to rise slightly to around 300 million
dollars
in 2003, however
, it remained steady at the same level from 2003 to 2010. The consumption of cell phone service equalled almost 200 million
in 2001, but it started to increase dramatically to less than 800 million
dollars
in 2010.
By contrast
,the spending on national fixed-line
service reached about 700 million
dollars
in the first year, on the contrary
, it demonstrated a sharp decrease from 2002 to 2010. The figure for American fixed-line
service was at
roughly 400 Change preposition
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million
dollars
in 2010.Submitted by marynchukangelina on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words fixed-line, services, dollars, million with synonyms.
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