The chart illustrates how many minutes people in Finland made on telephone calls for three different types between 1995 and 2004.
Overall, the time Finns spent on local-landline calls outperformed other categories throughout the period. Moreover, mobile calls showed a significant surge, while national and international landlines increased gradually.
Looking at the graph in more detail, in 1995, the number of minutes for local-landline calls in Finland was the highest in comparison to the other categories, at 12,000 million minutes. From 1995 to 2001, this category experienced a steady growth and reached a peak of around 17,000 million. Subsequently, local-landline calls dropped sharply by about 7,000 million in the last four years but still maintained their dominance.
Taking national and international-landline calls into consideration, they showed a slight rise throughout the period. Starting at around 6,000 million minutes in 1995, half the time of local landlines, these calls had reached just over 10,000 million minutes by 2004. Conversely, despite not being popular in 1995 with nearly zero minute, mobile calls witnessed a remarkable surge during the time surveyed. The figure for these calls was just under 10,000 million minutes in 2004, similar to national and international landlines.