Twenty percent of households had only cells during the last half of 2008, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released Wednesday. That was an increase of nearly 3 percentage points over the first half of the year, the largest six-month increase since the government started gathering such data in 2003.More info at AP.
The 20 percent of homes with only cell phones compared with 17 percent with landlines but no cells.
That ratio has changed starkly in recent years: In the first six months of 2003, just 3 percent of households were wireless only, while 43 percent stuck with only landlines.
Stephen Blumberg, senior scientist at the CDC and an author of the report, attributed the growing number of cell-only households in part to a recession that has forced many families to scour their budgets for savings. People who live in homes that have only wireless service tend to be disproportionately low-income, young, renters and Hispanics.
More households dumping landlines
Posted on Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 4:43 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckA survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that there are now more US households that only have cellphones than households that only have landlines. Twenty percent of households had only cell phones during the second half of 2008, compared with 17 percent with landlines but no cells.
