The bar chart depicts the total number of minutes (in millions) of telephone calls in Finland during a ten-year period, split into 3 categories. Overall, national and international calls increased, as did cellular calls, with the exception of local calls, which began to fall in the middle of the range.
At the start of 1995, local connections led the other two sectors with 12,000 minutes, while mobile connections were few in comparison to national connections, which made up half of local connections. During the first seven years, there was a steady increase in local, national, and international connections, with transnational connections taking up half of local connections, which reached nearly 17,000 minutes (2001). Even until 2001, there was little advancement in mobile cellular technology. In 2000, fewer than half of national connections had surpassed 8000 minutes.
However, over the last four years, there has been an enormous rise in mobile cellular usage, which is over four times higher than in 2000. This is inversely related to local connections, which showed a large reduction until the end of 2004.