The line graph gives information about the proportion of people in Africa subscribing to mobile and fixed lines through telephone between 1994 and 2004. Overall, both of the lines increased, with mobile lines surpassing the fixed lines. Notably, mobile lines had more than double the subscribers at the end of the period.
In 1994, only 0.06 subscribers per 100 inhabitants had a mobile line, which continued to increase marginally until 1997. From 1997 to 1999, there was a significant increase from approximately 0.1 subscribers to 1 subscriber, which was previously reached by fixed lines in 1996. However, from 1999 to 2004, mobile subscribers skyrocketed, starting with only 1 subscriber to 8.8 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, even surpassing the fixed lines in 2001, when it was nearly 3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
In 1994, fixed lines had 1.7 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, which increased slightly and more than doubled at the end of the period by reaching 3.1 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
