18.The line graph below shows the percentage of people in Africa subscribing to mobile and fixed-line phones from 1994 to 2004. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates the proportion of African individuals who subscribed to cell phones and

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phones between 1994 and 2004.

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, it is clearly observable that the subscriptions of both categories went up over the 10-year period. The year 2001 marks the point at which mobile subscription overtook

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. In 1994, the percentage of people who subscribed to

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stood at exactly 1.7%,

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that of cell phones was lower at 0.06%. Over the following seven years, the figure for

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saw a steady rise of approximately 0.9.

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, during the same period, there was a substantial increase from 0.06% to well under 3% in the percentage of mobile subscribers. In 2001, the figure for mobile subscribers exceeded that of

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. From

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year to 2004, the percentage

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of African

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inhabitants subscribing to mobile soared by nearly 5%.

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, the growth of

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was minimal and it just reached the proportion of 3.1%.