The line graph below shows the percentage of people in Africa subscribing to mobile and fixed-line phones from 1994 to 2004.

The line graph illustrates the percentages of people in Africa who subscribed to mobile and

fixed-line

phones

between 1994 and 2004.

Overall

, there were upward trends for both of the

phone

subscribers percentages throughout the years.

However

,

it is clear that

the use of

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phones

was more popular at the beginning of the period,

whereas

the mobile

phone

percentages rose the popularity in the final period. In 1994, 1.7% of African inhabitants subscribed to

fixed-line

phones

, which was higher than mobile

phone

subscribers, at only 0.06%. Both types of

phone

subscriptions gradually increased over the four following years, with mobile

phones

gaining more popularity than

fixed-line

phones

and overtook its position at 2.5% in 2000. From 2000 onwards,

while

the share of

fixed-line

subscribers continued to slowly increase, the proportion of mobile

phone

users saw a dramatic growth, reaching a peak at 8.8% in the final year, compared with the

fixed-line

users at only 3.3% in the same year.