News Report | July 15, 2018
More Than Half Of U.S. Consumers Use Only A Mobile Phone
As of the end of 2017, 53.9% of American homes had only wireless telephones instead of a landline. This is a 3.1 percentage point increase since the second half of 2016. Wireless telephones were defined as cellular telephones.
These findings were reported in “Wireless Substitution: Early Release Of Estimates From The National Health Interview Survey, July–December 2017” by Stephen J. Blumberg, Ph.D., and Julian V. Luke, of the Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. The researchers included questions on the National Health Interview Survey to determine whether a family had a landline . . .