The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billion) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002.
The chart shows the time spent by UK residents on different types of telephone calls between 1995 and 2002.
Local
fixed line
calls were the highest throughout the period, rising from 72 Add a hyphen
fixed-line
billion
minutes in 1995 to just under 90 billion
in 1998. After peaking at 90 billion
the following year, these calls had fallen back to the 1995 figure by 2002.
National and international fixed line calls grew steadily from 38 billion
to 61 billion
at the end
of the period in question, though the growth slowed over the last
two years.
There was a dramatic increase in mobile calls from 2 billion
to 46 billion
minutes.This
rise was particularly noticeable between 1999 and 2002, during which time the use of mobile phones tripled.
To sum up
, although
local fixed line calls were still the most popular in 2002, the gap between the three categories had narrowed considerably over the second half of the period in question.Submitted by buyabuya201 on
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