Tue, 07/08/2014 – 21:05 by New data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from the National Center for Health Statistics, now reflect that 41% of US homes have no landlines — only mobile phones. These data are from the period July 2013 through December 2013.
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report goes on to say that almost 34% of households with both landline and wireless phones “received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones.” These mostly wireless homes represent 16.1% of all US households according to the NHIS.
Together the two categories of wireless only or mostly wireless homes constitute 57.1 percent of all US households. Either the landline doesn’t exist or it’s mostly a spam catcher for telemarketing and other unwanted calls.
There are regional and demographic differences in the data. The poor were much more likely to be mobile only and so were younger adults. The Midwest was the region that (barely) had the most mobile only households with 43.7%. The Northeast had the least at 24.9%.
According to NHIS, growth of mobile-only homes has slowed vs. previous years. Thus growth of mobile-only homes may be near a plateau.
