The graph below shows consumers' average annual expenditure on cell phone, national and international fixed-line and services in America between 2001 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows consumers' average annual expenditure on cell phone, national and international fixed-line and services in America between 2001 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph below illustrates consumers' average spending yearly on mobile, national, and international
landline
services in America between 2001 and 2010.
Overall
,
while
there was an upward trend in mobile phones, the opposite was seen in
landline
services. Strikingly, spending
for
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international phone calls barely changed over 10 years. Standing as the lowest at $200 in 2001, cellphones exhibited a significant/ remarkable increase, surpassing overseas at 300 in 2002 and
landline
calls at 500 in 2006 respectively, becoming the most spending. The
last
4 years witnessed
this
constant growth to reach 750 in 2010, nearly double the second
landline
.
Conversely
, given the highest budget at 700 in 2001, the local fixed line witnessed a continuous decline of 300 over a decade. After a slight increase from 250 to 350
then
a minor decline for the first 3 years, the spending on international fixed-line remained unchanged/ stabilised at $300 for the rest of the observed period.
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