For once, I guess I'm trendy...

[SykkBoy]

Cell Phone-Only Homes Overtake Landline-Only Homes

For the first time ever, cell phone-only households are more popular than landline-only households, according to the most recent Mediamark Research report titled ?The Birth of a Cellular Nation.?

In Mediamark?s observations from September 2006 to April 2007, the research firm found that cell-phone only households made up 14% of the total population, while landline-only households made up just 12.3% of the total population.

This was the first time that this was observed since Mediamark began tracking these figures in 2000.

In the prior period (March 2006 to October 2006), the percentages were almost reversed, with cell phone-only households making up 12.4% of the population, while landline-only households made up 14.5% of the population.

Andrew Arthur, Vice President of MRI?s Market Solutions division and author of the report, attributes this shift to two reasons: ?a steepening decline since 2000 in the percentage of households with any landline, accompanied by a rapid rise in the number of households with at least one cell phone."

The trend is bolstered by younger people. Of all 18-24 year olds living in single-person households, 57.1% are cell phone-only. This makes them more than four times more likely to be cell phone-only than the average adult.

http://www.dmconfidential.com/blogs/...b_Trends/1503/

I recently got my kids all pre-paid cell phones and got rid of the landline and am saving money and frustration now that I no longer have to deal with Embarq...

[Wizzo]

Originally Posted by SykkBoy2

I recently got my kids all pre-paid cell phones and got rid of the landline and am saving money and frustration now that I no longer have to deal with Embarq...

Pre-paid for the kids is the best thing I've done in awhile, makes then think about their phone use and makes them responsible for it, also when they want extra time, tones, games or whatever they have to earn extra cash so they can get it...

[Scott McD]

The landline is still handy to keep, although my bills have dropped with it because we use the cell phone to make most calls now.

Will still have landline for a while yet anyway...

[RevSand]

I have a landline but no phone plugged into it for over a year now.. Only have it since its what my DSL runs off...

[SykkBoy]

Originally Posted by Wizzo

Pre-paid for the kids is the best thing I've done in awhile, makes then think about their phone use and makes them responsible for it, also when they want extra time, tones, games or whatever they have to earn extra cash so they can get it...

Same here
it's also a great discipline tool
if they don't do their homework or if they backtalk or misbehave, they don't get their minutes....that, for them, is worse punishment and more effective than any spanking I could give.