The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart demonstrates the amount of time spent by three types of phone calls in the United Kingdom between 1995 and 2002.

As can be seen from the graph, the time of local calls using fixed line was the highest over the period. The figure stood at just above 70 billion minutes in both 1995 and 2002. It is obvious that the upward trend was overtaken by a downward trend after 1999. The all-time high amount was 90 billion minutes, which was reached by local fixed line calls.

On the contrary, the other two categories both showed a trend of continuous increasing. National and international calls utilising fixed line has climbed from around 39 billion in 1995 to roughly 60 billion in 2002. Although mobiles tended to be the least popular phoning device, the number of time has jumped to 40 billion in 2002.

To sum up, people in the UK. preferred to use fixed line over cell phones. Moreover, the greatest number of phone calls during the seven years was occurred in the local area.