Washington - Over one in
five U.S. homes have
foregone the landline in favor of using mobile phones exclusively, according to
a survey from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center
for Health Statistics. During the second half of 2008, 20.2% of U.S. homes were
mobile-only, which represents an increase of 2.7% on the first half of last
year, and the largest six-month increase seen since the National Health
Interview Survey began polling on the question in 2003.
In addition to the mobile-only phenomenon, the survey found that one of every seven American homes (14.5%) received all or almost all calls on mobile phones, despite having a landline phone in the house.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/releases.htm#wireless200905
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how stupid can people get? what on earth makes you think that you are able to afford that half a million house on your 30K salary??
Well, my friend who is an English Polish translator has recently forwarded my some research from Poland and apparently, the same is happening in other countries as well – people are going mobile, and fixed lines are becoming a thing of the past.
mobile phones are absolute.
Older than those more fashionable and expensive!
It’s not only a trend at the U.S in south america mobile phone companies are really making money because most people stop using their home phones and switched totally to mobile phones.
Very interesting posts and well written.
Who needs a landline phone anymore? That’s becoming old-fashioned.
We keep ours just in case. But I thought less people had them anyway.
its sad too see an end of one invention (the telephone) due to another great invention the mobile phone. the telephone too has made modes of communication quite revolutionary which was otherwise impossible at previous times.we can say these telephones are ancestors to our pocket sized handy mobile phones….
It amazes me just how many people use a mobile phone today. It only seems like not so long ago when only a select few had what looked like a brick and was the envy of everyone. Now you see little kids with these phones that are small as a pack of cigarettes. Crazy times.:D