The chart below shows the total number of minutes in billion of telephone calls in the UK divided three categories from 1995 from 2002.

The chart compares three different types of telephone calls in the United Kingdom over a 7-year period between 1995 and 2002.

Overall

, the residential phone was fairly used by people in the UK to make local calls.

However

, making local and international calls using mobiles was the least popular during the period shown. In 1995, UK residents spoke to locals for about 72

billion

minutes

with fixed

lines

, which was nearly twice as high as those who used fixed

lines

for national and international vocal connections.

Also

, a small number of people went to cell phones,

while

the figure remained fairly constant until 1998, and

then

increased considerably until 2002 reaching just over 45

billion

minutes

. Local calls with residential

lines

experienced a steady rise peaking at 90

billion

minutes

in 1999, and

then

decreased by about 17

billion

minutes

until 2002. A glance at national and international calls from fixed

lines

, the number of

minutes

grew gradually, doubling in 2002, compared to the figure in 1995 at 38

billion

minutes

.