Cutting The Cord: Landline Ownership Drops Sharply In Past 3 Years
The Centers for Disease Control wants to know how many people are doing without landlines and using only mobile phones.
Why would the Centers for Disease Control care about landlines?
Because much of their work involves surveying the American public on health issues and disease. And people with mobie phones are harder to track and survey.
In the first half of 2006, one out of 8 U.S. households did not have a landline phone. Just three years earlier, that number was one in 20.
Among young adults - 18 to 24 years old - one out of four has just a cell phone. So anyone who tries to take a survey among people in that age group has a really tough time finding a broad sample.
It’s simple - more and more people in this century are deciding that a wireless phone is a necessity, and a landline phone is a luxury.
In the last century, it was just the opposite.
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[via AP, Maggiore.net]
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