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May 5, 2017

Most U.S. homes now are landline-less

  • Plenty of people who still have landlines say they would get rid of them if they could.
    • By ANICK JESDANUN
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group — people with a landline phone at home.

    According to a U.S. government study released Thursday, 50.8 percent of homes and apartments had only cellphone service in the latter half of 2016, the first time such households attained a majority in the survey. Braswell and her family are part of the 45.9 percent that still have landline phones. The remaining households have no phone service at all.


     
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