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Question: The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002. Summarise the information by selecting a reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Image: ielts-writing-bar-chart-uk-telephone-calls

Question: The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002. Summarise the information by selecting a reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Image: ielts-writing-bar-chart-uk-telephone-calls
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The bar chart presents how many
minutes
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 people spent on landline phones and mobiles to call local and international regions from 1995 to 2002. In overview, the number of
minutes
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 of mobile calls has increased over time.
Similarly
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, the national and international calls by fixed lines
also
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 climbed over a seven-year period.
However
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, local calls by headline phones displayed a reverse-U-shape trend.
According to
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 the diagram, people spent much more time on local calls when they used headline phones than other calling forms. In the beginning, it took about 70
minutes
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 in 1995, and
next,
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it reached the highest number of 90 in 1999, but it
subsequently
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 decreased to the original point which was the same as in 1995. Concerning calls in local and international regions, the figure averagely took up the second rank. It started with a number of almost 40
minutes
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, rose
up
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steadily over the past few years, and
finally
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, it reached over 60
minutes
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. In the case of smartphones, fewer users employed these devices to call others, it had about only 2
minutes
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 in 1995.
Whereas
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 the statistics have become larger, it rocketed up to approximately 45
minutes
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 in 2002 and the figure was over twenty times the minute of in the start.

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