Some 35.8 percent of U.S. homes did not use or buy fixed network telephone service during the first half of 2012 – an increase of 1.8 percent since the second half of 2011, according to the latest survey and report by the Centers for Disease Control.
In addition, 15.9 percent of U.S. adults received all or almost all calls on wireless phones, despite also having a fixed network telephone service.
CDC does not claim the rate of substitution has slowed to 1.8 percent over the first six months of 2012 – that is the slowest rate of increase since 2008. Read More...
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