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The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995–2002.

The information given by the bar graph is about the amount of time spent by people in the UK on three different types of call during the period of 1995-2002. Overall, local calls were the most popular in the whole period. However, it can be seen that, the consumption of minutes spent on the national and international calls and mobiles calls both increased dramatically whereas local calls fell down steadily from 2000. For local calls, the billion minute fluctuation started at 70 billion minutes in 1995, peaking at approximately 90 billion. Nevertheless, at the end, the figure decreased, by 20 billion - the same as its beginning of the period. Moving to the national and international, the positive trend rose up steadily years after years, from under 40 billion to over 60 billion in 2002. Subsequently, the mobile trend, which is the lowest one at start of the period, began with approximately 3 billion in 1995 and climbed to around 40 billion in 2002.

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