More than one-third of U.S. households have completely ditched landlines for wireless

[Corey]

Forget the “post-PC era“: We’re very close to hitting the post-landline era. The Center for Disease Control has released some preliminary results from its National Health Interview Survey for 2012 and has found that 35.8% of American households no longer have any sort of landline telephone in their houses and rely exclusively upon wireless. What’s more, just under 16% of American households said they “received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones despite also having a landline telephone,” meaning that more than half of all American households either have no landline service at all or have a landline service but rely almost exclusively on wireless. This trend is only likely to accelerate as well, since more than 40% of Americans ages 18 and younger have ditched landline service all together, significantly higher than the 34% of all American adults who have done the same.

 

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[Medic Kane]

Haven't had a land line in years, no reason to at all...

[jaie]

Depends. They are way more expensive, they use more electricity, they run on batteries (so you'll get cut off if it truns out). Depending on your environment, you can get static (very annoying on long distance calls). & I'm not sure if there's any protection from someone trying to listen in on you.

[RedBaird]