Band 6+: The chart below shows the worldwide use of different kinds of information and communication technology (ICT) from 1998 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart illustrates the worldwide use of five kinds of information and communication technology (ICT) between 1998 and 2008.

Overall, although sometimes all categories fluctuated, they witnessed an upward trend over the period , except for mobile/cell phone. However, mobile/cell phone was the most popular technology before plummeting in the final year.

In terms of mobile/ cell phone, it experienced a significant increase, starting at around 7% in 1998 and rising from nearly 8% in 2000 to 30% in 2006. It then continued to reach about 45% in 2007, but this proportion declined dramatically in 2008, at zero. In addition, both landline and internet accounted for 9% and 3% in 1998, respectively, both of them remained at stable in 1999 and began to grow from roughly 9% and 7% in 2000 to nearly 10% and 11% in 2003, which the latter outnumbered the former until the year 2007 recorded the opposite trend, at around 16% and 15% and they matched together, at 20% in 2008.

Turning to wifi, where just had zero from 1998 to 2003, people started to use it in 2004, making up approximtely 5% and going up to around 14% in 2008. Besides that, the percentage of fixed broadband had zero in the first year, it increased remarkably from nearly 1% in 1999 to about 8% in 2002 and it remained unchanged in the next year. Subsequently, it rose from nearly 10% in 2004 to about 13% by 2008.