The bar chart illustrates the total proportion of phone calls in millions of minutes in Finland, with three call types from 1995 to 2004.
Overall, local-landline culminated in 2001, but then dropped in 2004, whereas national and international-landline marked a gradual increase over the whole period, and mobiles indicated a considerable increase throughout the eight-year period.
In 1995, local-landline comprised 12 million minutes, then rose gradually to a peak of around 17 million minutes in 2001. However, from 2002, the figures dropped sharply, ending at 12 million minutes by 2004, the highest number among the three categories.
Turning to national and international-landline and mobiles, national and international-landline initially constituted 6 million minutes in 1995, then increased to a little above 8 million minutes in 2000. Over the next four years, the trend grew moderately, reaching slightly above 10 million minutes in 2004. Mobiles accounted for almost zero minutes in 1995, then climbed slowly to approximately 3 million minutes in 2000. For the following four years, the pattern increased gradually to almost 10 million minutes by 2004, making it the smallest number recorded in that period.
