The line graph indicates the amount of people who used various communication services across the globe between 1998 and 2008.
Overall, all of the services follow the increasing trend over the period, however with landline service as an exception, which stayed fairly constant with a slight rise in between.
In 1988, units used per 100 inhabitants were around five for cellular phone services, which later followed steady increasing trend till 2006, to reach the figure of approximately 45. This, later got a dramatic increase over the last two years, to reach the figure, just above 65, exhibiting the maximum rise out of the overall period, making it most popular service out of all other services. This trend was also followed by the internet, with initial figure approximately equal to that of cellular phone services, to reach around 25 by 2008, which became second most popular in the world.
However,despite the fact that, maximum individuals out of all, used landline services at the beginning of 1998, interest of the people remained fairly constant throughout the period, with the figure being just below 20. On the other hand, the rest of two services: mobile and fixed broadband, showed minimal growth, with around 0 units till 2004 to approximately 5 by 2008.