The bar chart illustrates the total number of calls in the UK in billions of minutes, with three call types over an eight year period from 1995 to 2002.
Overall, local fixed line calls reached a peak by the middle of the period, then gradually declined. National and international calls showed a gradual rise over the whole period with mobile calls rising considerably toward the end of the period.
Regarding local fixed line calls, in 1995 they began at slighty over 70 billion minutes and rose steadily to a peak of 90 billion minutes in 1999. However, from 2000, the trend showed a gradual decline in numbers of calls, ending in 2002 at the same amount as the start of the period.
Turning to national, international fixed calls and mobile calls, mobile call in 1995 stood at around 2 billion minutes. Over the next 4 years, they showed a gradual rise, with a considerable increase in call numbers from 2000 to 2002. International fixed calls showed a similar pattern, starting at just under 40 billion minutes of calls in 1995, then grew steadily to around 60 billion minutes of calls in 2002.
