The line chart illustrates the number of customers who used five various communication services worldwide between 1998 and 2008.
Overall, what stands out from the chart is that the highest number of service users used cellular phones than did users of other services worldwide. By contrast, mobile download and fixed broadband both rose similarly over the 20-year period.
Looking at the chart in more detail, the number of network users increased rapidly for landline service, from only 2% to approximately 60% a rise of almost 58% between 1998 and 2008. In addition, mobile broadband and fixed broadband had similar figures and increased from 1% to almost 5%, respectively, between 2006 and 2008.
On the other hand, in 1998, just under 5% and around 15% of communication service users used landline and intertext services, respectively, and these communication services increased to around 20% in the year 2008.