More and More Americans Cutting the Cord
The Center for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics this week released a report, entitled Wireless Substitution: State-level Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-December 2007, which finds (no surprise) that more and more households are "cutting the cord," dropping their landline service and using their mobile phones exclusively.
According to the survey results, Oklahoma leads the nation in this trend, with 26.2 percent of households using only wireless. Vermont is at the other end of the scale, with only 5.1 percent cutting the cord.
"These findings are important to CDC because many of our largest surveys are done on calls to landline phone numbers. All of those adults with only cell phones are being missed in these surveys," says Stephen J. Blumberg, health scientist with CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of the study.
More here from redOrbit … more here from the WSJ … more here from InformationWeek … more here from Scientific American … and the press release is here.