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-task-1-bar-chart-uk-telephone-calls

The bar chart presents how many

minutes

people spent on landline phones and mobiles to call local and international regions from 1995 to 2002. In overview, the number of

minutes

of mobile calls has increased over time.

Similarly

, the national and international calls by fixed lines

also

climbed over a seven-year period.

However

, local calls by headline phones displayed a reverse-U-shape trend.

According to

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

in 1995, and

next,

it reached the highest number of 90 in 1999, but it

subsequently

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

, rose

up

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steadily over the past few years, and

finally

, it reached over 60

minutes

. In the case of smartphones, fewer users employed these devices to call others, it had about only 2

minutes

in 1995.

Whereas

the statistics have become larger, it rocketed up to approximately 45

minutes

in 2002 and the figure was over twenty times the minute of in the start.