The line chart presents information on the number of users of three communication technologies in China—fixed telephone lines, mobile phones, and the Internet—from 1994 to 2005.
Overall
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mobile-phone
use increased rapidly and became the dominant category by the end of the period. The number of fixed telephone lines Correct your spelling
mobile phone
also
grew steadily, Linking Words
while
Internet use declined over the years.
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According to
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mobile-phone
users increased from 1994 to approximately 450 million in 2005. Mobile phones were more convenient and accessible than fixed telephone lines, which remained more commonly used by older people. Internet use Correct your spelling
mobile phone
also
changed during Linking Words
this
period, reaching nearly 250 million users in 2005, possibly because alternative communication technologies had become more widely available.Linking Words