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 land line
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landline
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.Submitted by ru.kabiru.biru on
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