Tag: LANDLINES

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, we reported on news that an amazing 82 percent of Americans owned cell phones, with 250 million of the things in use. Now comes an Associated Press (AP) report that says that three out of 10 Americans either prefer their cell phone or rely on it exclusively. The numbers come as part of a federal study -- by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), no less -- which also ...