The graph shows the upward trend of personal use of CD players, mobile phones, home computers and internet access in UK households from 1996 to 2003.
We can see that while overall domestic usage for all personal technology steadily increased, there was a more dramatic rise in mobile phone usage and internet access, which had only started to be recorded from 1998.
In 1996, CD players were by far the most accessible at 60 % of UK households, increasing steadily to just over 80% by 2003. Home computer accessibility also gained steadily in a similar trend, gaining also roughly 20% from about 30% to 50% usage.
On the other hand, while mobile phones started with the lowest accessibility in 1996 at about 18% usage, it climbed dramatically, surpassing home computers at the beginning of 1999 to about 70% usage by 2003. Similarly, internet access, which started off at an overall lowest accessibility of roughly 10% of all households in 1998, quickly climbed significantly to almost half of all UK households by 2003.