The line graph below shows US consumers' average annual expenditures on cell phone and residential phone services between 2001 and 2010.

The chart gives information on how Americans spent their budget in a year for the use of each type of phone, from 2001 to 2010.

Overall

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, annual expenditures on cell phone services have been increasing in the period.

By contrast

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, those for residential use have been decreasing since 2001.

Firstly

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, the green line shows that people have spent more money on individual phones through the years. In fact, between the two periods, expenditures are 4 times more important, with $800 compared to $200.

However

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, Americans spend less money on home service with the beige line decreases. Looking at the graph in detail, since 2006 US people have spent more on cell activity than residential. In

this

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year, the two kinds were almost equal. Before, in the early 2000s, the difference was $500 on average less for modern service and in the early 2010s, the distinction was about $350 less for residential service.