The bar chart presents data on the total number of minutes of telephone calls (in billions) in the United Kingdom, distributed into three categories, from 1995 to 2002.
Overall, throughout the period, local calls exceeded other types of calls. National and international calls increased slightly, while mobile calls had the lowest figures over the period.
In 1995, the number of local calls made up approximately 72 billion minutes. National and international calls came next at around 48 billion minutes. The lowest figures were for mobile calls, which showed around 3 billion minutes. By 1999 the figures at all three telephone calls went up. The number of local calls reached a peak of 90 billion minutes. The figures of national and international calls rose at approximately 50 billion minutes, while the number of mobile calls increased slightly around only 9 billion minutes. At the end of the period, the quantity of mobile, national and international calls exhibited growth of approximately 45 and 55 billions minutes correspondingly, whereas the number of local calls had decreased back to the initial level of around 72 billion minutes.
