One-fifth of U.S. homes now wireless only
May 7, 2009
More than 20 percent of U.S. households in the second half of 2008 had only a cell phone and no landline, according to a survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The new figures from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) represent the largest six-month increase observed since NHIS began collecting data on wireless-only households in 2003.
According to the survey, one of every seven American homes (14.5 percent) received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones, despite having a landline telephone in the home.
NHIS is conducted quarterly to assess Americans' health in a number of areas. Beginning in 2003, the survey began questioning respondents about their home phone service.
In the first six months of 2003, only 3 percent of households were wireless only, while 43 percent relied on only land lines.
In this report, households are identified as "wireless only" if they include at least one wireless phone and there are no working landline telephones inside the household.
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