One Out of Eight Homes Use Only CellPhones.

In a National Health Interview it was discovered that some 13% of the households use no land line for communications. The profile of the people in this subgroup were — likely to be smokers and/or binge drinkers.

The federal government estimates that one of every eight American homes uses only mobile phones for communications.

The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which was conducted between January and June of this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The government noted that the number of wireless-only households has been steadily increasing since 2003 and now accounts for 13.6% of households.

Researchers found that more than 55% of all adults living with unrelated roommates relied solely on cellphones, and noted that this is the “highest prevalence rate among the population subgroups examined.”

I would not be surprised if employment applications start asking if you only use a cell phone as a phone service. Might show up as a ‘bad habit’ for particular age groups. Ouch!

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