Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday May 4, 2017 @11:40AM from the there's-a-first-for-everything dept.

The National Center for Health Statistics has released a report that says, for the first time in history, U.S. households with landlines are now in the minority. Network World reports: The second 6 months of 2016 was the first time that a majority of American homes had only wireless telephones. Preliminary results from the July-December 2016 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that 50.8% of American homes did not have a landline telephone but did have at least one wireless telephone (also known as cellular telephones, cell phones, or mobile phones) -- an increase of 2.5 percentage points since the second 6 months of 2015. Young adults (25-34) and those who rent are most likely to live wireless-only, as 70 percent of that demographic lives with a landline.

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I still have a landline by ShanghaiBill · 2017-05-04 11:43 · Score: 4, Funny

I still have a landline. I need it so that when I can't find my cellphone, I can call it and search for the ringing sound.
Cellphone-only households are a stupid idea. by hey! · 2017-05-04 12:09 · Score: 4, Funny

There should be at least one person to actually use the cell phones.

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