The bar chart illustrates the number of minutes spent in telephones calls categorized into local, international and mobiles in UK from 1995 to 2002. The minutes of calls calculated in billions.
Overall it can be observed that citizens of UK spent most of their time on local calls throughout the period of 8 years. While national and international calls and mobiles started at lower side, number of minutes began to increase over the years with both reaching its peak at the end of the period while local plummeted.
In 1995, people spent around 70 billion minutes on local calls which was the highest. The number gradually grew over the years and peaked at 90 billion in 1999. But after the period of rise, the number began to decrease at huge pace. It fell down drastically from approximately 85 billion to just over 70 billion at the end of 2002.
These were mainly due to the rise of fixed lines in national and international calls and also shift towards the use of mobiles. Both of them started at lower numbers. Around 35 billion of minutes were devoted to domestic and foreign calls. The numbers started to rise sharply with throughout the period reaching up to 50 billion in 1999 and ending at 60 billion in 2002, nearly touching the time of local calls. Whereas, 1995 data of cell phones shows that it was not popular at that time with only 5 billion minutes being spent on calls made using the device. But as the technology advanced over the years, minutes jumped to just over 20 billion in 2000 before reaching the summit at roughly 45 billion in 2002.