Tag: LANDLINE

Apparently, U.S. residents between 25- and 29-years old have become the first age group to truly ditch the landline, as a full 51-percent of them are using cell phones exclusively. This is probably due in part to the fact that cell phones' address books make it much easier to keep track of all those numbers for our parents' home phones, cell phones, work phones, work cell phones... ...

If you terminated your landline phone service recently, count yourself among a growing number of Americans transitioning to a purely mobile existence. According to a new Citi Investment Report from analyst Jason Bazinet, nearly 30-percent of all U.S. households have now disconnected their landlines -- up from 25-percent just one year ago. As Business Insider explains, the "wireless substitution" ...

It may have taken some time, but universities across the country seem to be finally coming to terms with the death of the landline. Last week, the University of Virginia removed around 3,850 phones from dorms across its Charlottesville campus in a move that school officials claim will save $500,000 per year. In the last few years, carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have also expanded ...

Last May we reported that one in five Americans had ditched their landlines and had decided to go cell phone only. Over a year later, it's time for an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who report that number has climbed to 25-percent, or one in four Americans that have cut the cord for good. The number of homes with both a cell phone and a traditional landline has ...

While this lamp is hot pink and looks like a computer mouse with some kind of mutant growth sticking out of its back, it will cost you literally nothing to run. This monstrosity has eight LEDs that provide light to read by, and rather than jacking up your electricity bill, it runs on power siphoned from your local telco. You see, rather than plugging into a standard power outlet, this lamp has ...

Bad news for traditional phone companies: Apparently, the recession has only accelerated the move away from landline phones. Now, one in every five American homes has ditched their landline all together, and cellular-only households outnumber those relying exclusively on traditional phones. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cell phone only homes jumped ...

The writing is on the wall for landline based phones. We've been heralding their demise since Switched launched. Every time a new study is released on the number of cell phones vs. landlines in the U.S., the number of people who prefer or rely solely on cell phones creeps up and the number of landlines slips slowly, pushing the idea of a "home phone" towards the dustbin of history. ...

While those of us in the United States might consider an iPhone or BlackBerry to be the ultimate mobile status symbol, Cubans are just now lusting after the most basic of cell phones, we learned from the Washington Post via Textually.org. Cuba's new president, Raul Castro, has introduced cell phones to the Cuban marketplace -- along with other formerly contraband devices like DVD players, ...

The writing has been on the wall for a while for landlines. We've reported more than once on how more people are going cell phone only (especially those under 30). Now, however, it's not just households, but businesses and colleges that are starting to ditch traditional wired phones and signaling danger for any company that exclusively operates landline phone services. The City Administrator's ...

Earlier this year we reported that 16-percent of households have cut the tether; relying exclusively on cell phone service and canceling landline service altogether. We have a follow-up survey now, and perhaps unsurprisingly, that number continued to grow, now up to 17.5 percent. One year ago that figure was 13.6 percent, showing a progressive rate of change among people eager to be rid of ...

AT&T may have about the best selection of choice handsets (smart or otherwise) available in the States right now, and continued iPhone exclusivity has definitely brought a windfall of new subscribers to its wireless division, but Ma Bell wasn't built on cell towers alone. There's still an extensive landline division to support, and it seems the company is leveraging the current economic ...

Telemarketers-turned-inventors from the United Kingdom have started shipping TrueCall (£99.99), a device that acts as an automated secretary on your land line, either forwarding trusted numbers to your phone or answering untrusted numbers with an automated message and shooing them away. When an unrecognized number dials in, TrueCall asks them who they are and then rings you asking whether or ...

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has been mighty busy as of late. Hot on the heels of its study that revealed that people like to Google themselves, but like to Google others even more is a fresh batch of stats about how teenagers communicate. The survey of 12 to 17 year old boys and girls turned up some shocking information -- teens still prefer a good old-fashioned landline phone to ...

Like Tom Cruise's career, telephone landlines are on a path to extinction. That's according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which, apparently, has grown bored of studying its usual fodder of killer viruses, avian flu and other flesh eating bugs. The study reports that more than 25 percent of folks under 30 have ditched traditional landline phones in favor of ...