The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in millions) of telephone calls in Finland, divided into three categories from 1995 to 2004.


FINLAND’s telephone calls, by category, 1995 – 2004

The chart provides information regarding the overall time spent by Finland’s residents on different types of telephone calls between 1995 and 2004.

In general, the gap between the three categories was huge in the first half however, it got narrowed considerately over the second half of the period, although local land-line calls were still the most popular in 2004.

It is clear from the graph that between 1995 and 2004, local-landline calls were the highest throughout the period, rising from 12000 million minutes in 1995 to just under 17000 million in 2000. After a short peak at 17000 million the following year, these calls had fallen back to the 1995 figure by 2004. On the other hand, National and international land-line calls grew steadily from 6000 million to 10500 million at the end of the period, though the growth slowed over the last two years.

Surprisingly, there was a dramatic increase in mobile calls from 250 to 9800 million minutes. This rise was particularly noticeable between 2000 and 2004, during which the use of mobile phones tripled.

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