Wireless families on rise in the USA

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: As the number of “wireless families” in the United States continues to grow, it has been found out that one in four US households had only mobile phones and no landline at the end of last year. 24.5 percent of the US households reported to have only a mobile phone in the last six months of 2009.

The above numbers implies that some 52 million adults and 19 million children lived in homes with no landline telephone. 4.3 percentage points increase in the households without a landline but with at least one mobile phone in the last six months of 2009 has been reported from the same period the previous year and by nearly 12 percentage points since July-December 2006.

Only mobile phones is reported to be possessed by nearly two-thirds of adults who shared a flat or house with unrelated roommates making that group the most likely to be completely wireless. Renters formed the major chunk of the wireless-only homes when compared to those with home-owners as only 14 percent of those who owned their home were wireless only while 43 percent of people who rented their home had just mobile phone in their home.

The age-group most likely to live in a wireless-only home was 25- to 29 year olds and adults aged 65 and over were least likely to be totally wireless. With 24.5 percent, men were more likely than women to be living wirelessly who are at 21.3 percent. 36.3 percent of poor adults lived in wireless-only homes compared to one in five better-off adults.