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More US homes cutting landline phones
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[quote:R-fan 629216:MV83OTI1MDhfQzM1MDYxMEE=] WASHINGTON (AFP) - – One in five US homes has abandoned landlines and is exclusively using wireless phones, according to a survey released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The survey by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) found that during the second half of 2008, 20.2 percent of US homes had only wireless telephones. That was an increase of 2.7 percentage points over the first half of 2008, the NCHS said, and the largest six-month increase since it began asking about wireless-only households in 2003. Read more http://asia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090512/ttc-us-it-telecom-cdc-0de2eff.html [/quote]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – One in five US homes has abandoned landlines and is exclusively using wireless phones, according to a survey released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The survey by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) found that during the second half of 2008, 20.2 percent of US homes had only wireless telephones.
That was an increase of 2.7 percentage points over the first half of 2008, the NCHS said, and the largest six-month increase since it began asking about wireless-only households in 2003.
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