The bare chart compares the total duration of telephone Calls in the Uk between 1995 and 2002 Categorized into local, national and international and mobile calls.
Overall, local calk were the most popular over the whole period, with national and international calls and calls on mobiles seond and thirld respectively. However, the number of minutes spent on international and national calls and mobiles both increased overs the Pertiod, with mobile minutes increasing dramatically, thus narrowin the gap between the three categories by 2002.
Minutes spent on local call’s fluctuated over the Perriod, with just over 70 billion minutes inal 1995, Peaking at approximately 90 billion in o 1999. and then steadily decreasing to just overr. 70 billion minutes in 2002.
National and international calls increased steadily year on year, from Just under go billion minuts in 1995 to a Peak of just overt so billion in 2002. Mobile minutes increased rapidly from approximate 3 billion in 1995 to around 95 billion in 2002. The Usage neasily doubled from approximately 22 billion minutes in 2000 to 40 billion in 2001 tin mobile phone