The bar chart illustrates the amount of time spent on three types of telephone calls in the UK from 1995 to 2002.
Overall, local fixed line calls showed a downward trend after reaching their peak. In contrast, national and international calls as well as mobile calls continued to grow steadily, with mobiles in particular experiencing a sharp increase.
In 1995, domestic fixed-line calls dominated, with over 70 billion minutes. Since then, this category continued to grow until peaking in 1999, but it gradually declined and rebounded to its former figure. However, the local fixed line was still the most popular type in the UK compared to others.
Contrary to the domestic landline, both overseas fixed line and mobile calls were on the rise, especially mobile calls, which grew impressively from around 2 billion minutes in 1995 to 45 billion minutes in 2002, notably given the strong increase in minutes between 1999 and 2002, which showed that the trend of using smartphones was being noticed.
