[lbo-talk] 1 in 8 U.S. households now wireless only

[Doug Henwood]

<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless200705.pdf>

Preliminary results from the July-December 2006 National Health  
Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of households with  
only wireless telephones continues to increase. During the last 6  
months of 2006, more than 3 out of every 20 American homes (15.8%)  
did not have a landline telephone. Of those homes without a landline  
telephone, most had at least one working wireless telephone.  
Preliminary results from NHIS suggest that more than one out of every  
eight American homes (at least 12.8%) had only wireless telephones  
during the second half of 2006. These are the most up-to-date  
estimates available from the federal government concerning the size  
of this population.