WASHINGTON — In a first for any age group, more than half of Americans ages 25-29 live in households with cellphones but no traditional landline phones.
A report on phone use by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that the younger children are, the likelier they are to live in homes that have only wireless phones.
The survey showed that overall, 27 percent of U.S. households had only cellphones in the first half of this year, up 2 percentage points since the last half of 2009. That number has been growing rapidly — in the first six months of 2007, just 14 percent of households relied only on wireless service. Among 25- to 29-year-olds, 51 percent lived in homes with only cellphone service in the first half of 2010. That was up 2 percentage points from the previous six-month period.
The shift toward cellphones is having a wide impact, changing not only how people communicate but the telecom industry and the work of pollsters and others who collect data. Alan Fram, The Associated Press
