The bar chart illustrates how much the UK residents talked by three different types of telephone (local-fixed line, national and international-fixed line, and mobiles (all calls)) between 1995 and 2007. Units are measured in billion minutes. Overall, local-fixed line was the most popular category among others throughout the period in question.
At the start of the period, local-fixed line had witnessed the highest number of minutes talked with by approximately 72 billion minutes. It increased to around 80 billion minutes and around 85 billion minutes in 1996 and 1997 respectively. In 1998, this amount reached a meagre less than90 billion minutes before it peaked to the top of the given chart at exactly 90 billion minutes in 1999. The trend reversed by the following years to the same number in 1997. In 2001 the number of local-fixed line was the same as that of 1996 and the final year, 2002 reached the lowest number like the number at the beginning of the given period. Despite the changes local-fixed line was the most popular category in a seven-year period.
National and international-fixed line experienced a gradually increase, rising from less than 40 billion minutes in 1995 to precisely 60 billion minutes in both years 2001 and 2002. Likewise there was an upward trend for mobiles (all calls). This category considerably increased to almost four fold at about 4 billion minutes to around 4.4 billion minutes from 1995 to 2002.