The line graph depicts shifts in daily communication volume for business purposes in New Stratford from 1980 to 2005 across 5 various categories.
Overall, the usage of traditional means of communication witnessed a downward trend, while the figures for modern means of communication climbed up significantly and reached their peaks in 2005.
Looking at the graph in more detail, traditional communication including letters and landline phones was dominant from 1980 to 1990, with letters reaching a high of 21 million daily communications and landline phones reaching its peak at just below 35 million communications per day. But then, from 1990 to 1995, traditional communication experienced a sharp decline, with the number of uses per day in both forms of communication dropping by about 10 million. Both countinued decreasing, and in 2005 letters’ daily communication volume was about 3 million, which is about 9 times lower than that in 1980; Meanwhile, 23 million is the number of communications using landline phones per day in 2005, which is 2 million lower than that in 1980.
In terms of modern communication, cell phones, e-mail, and other internet had minimal usage in 1980 with about 3 million, 2.5 million and 0 million communications per day. Those figures inched up slightly each year, and by 1995, both cell phones and e-mail reached 7 million daily uses and other internet reached 5 million of those. After 1995, cell phones and e-mail skyrocketed, peaking at 33 million and 25 million communications per day in 2005, respectively. Likewise, the number of communications using other internet also increased, reaching 7 million uses per day.