One in four U.S. households now has only wireless telephone service, a recent U.S. government study has found.
The report also drew some interesting correlations with the health of wireless users, whose homes were exposed to binge drinking at nearly twice that of adults in homes with landlines.
Mobile phone-only adults were also more likely to be current smokers and more likely to experience "serious psychological distress," said the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , released May 12.
The CDC did not say wireless phones caused any of the noted health problems it noted, but it documented that wireless-only homes were more heavily populated by younger people and unrelated adults, groups generally exposed to more drinking and smoking.
The percentage of homes with only mobile phones, 24.5% in the last half of 2009, represented an increase of 1.8 percentage points since the first half of 2009, the survey of more than 21,000 households found.
The steady increase in wireless-only homes has been reported by the CDC since 2003, when about 3% of homes in the U.S. were wireless.
Carl Howe, an analyst at Yankee Group, said in a blog post that the growth of wireless-only homes was "an amazing statistic."
However, he and other analysts are keenly aware of ways telecom providers in the U.S. have been gradually converting networks and business plans toward wireless.
Yankee Group also said that the national average of wireless-only homes understates results that it has found in surveys of 14,000 consumers, conducted in 2009. At that time, it found wireless-only homes exceeded 28%. In states such as Arkansas, North Carolina and Ohio, more than 40% of the homes had only wireless service, Howe said.
In some rural states where wired telecommunications are expensive or complicated to install, a majority of homes have cut their landlines -- at least based on survey results using a sample size of less than 50 people, Yankee said. Those states include Idaho, Wyoming and North Dakota.
The CDC didn't say that wireless phones caused binge drinking or smoking or psychological distress and merely reported a correlation. Binge drinking was reported in 34.5% of wireless-only homes, compared with 18.7% of homes with wired phones.
The CDC didn't report how much more likely wireless-only homes had smokers or those with psychological problems.
In another correlation, the CDC discovered that wireless phones were used widely in homes occupied by unrelated adult roommates, confirming the prevalence of wireless by young people and college residents seen by wireless carriers and college administrators.
The CDC said nearly two-thirds (62.9%) of adults living only with unrelated adults were also in homes that were wireless-only.
Forty-three percent of renters had wireless phones only, and 49% of adults aged 25 to 29 had only wireless phones in their homes.
For groups aged between 18 and 24, and between 30 and 34, about 37% lived in wireless-only homes. Men were slightly more likely than women (by 25% to 21%) to live in homes with only wireless phones
The report also drew some interesting correlations with the health of wireless users, whose homes were exposed to binge drinking at nearly twice that of adults in homes with landlines.
Mobile phone-only adults were also more likely to be current smokers and more likely to experience "serious psychological distress," said the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , released May 12.
The CDC did not say wireless phones caused any of the noted health problems it noted, but it documented that wireless-only homes were more heavily populated by younger people and unrelated adults, groups generally exposed to more drinking and smoking.
The percentage of homes with only mobile phones, 24.5% in the last half of 2009, represented an increase of 1.8 percentage points since the first half of 2009, the survey of more than 21,000 households found.
The steady increase in wireless-only homes has been reported by the CDC since 2003, when about 3% of homes in the U.S. were wireless.
Carl Howe, an analyst at Yankee Group, said in a blog post that the growth of wireless-only homes was "an amazing statistic."
However, he and other analysts are keenly aware of ways telecom providers in the U.S. have been gradually converting networks and business plans toward wireless.
Yankee Group also said that the national average of wireless-only homes understates results that it has found in surveys of 14,000 consumers, conducted in 2009. At that time, it found wireless-only homes exceeded 28%. In states such as Arkansas, North Carolina and Ohio, more than 40% of the homes had only wireless service, Howe said.
In some rural states where wired telecommunications are expensive or complicated to install, a majority of homes have cut their landlines -- at least based on survey results using a sample size of less than 50 people, Yankee said. Those states include Idaho, Wyoming and North Dakota.
The CDC didn't say that wireless phones caused binge drinking or smoking or psychological distress and merely reported a correlation. Binge drinking was reported in 34.5% of wireless-only homes, compared with 18.7% of homes with wired phones.
The CDC didn't report how much more likely wireless-only homes had smokers or those with psychological problems.
In another correlation, the CDC discovered that wireless phones were used widely in homes occupied by unrelated adult roommates, confirming the prevalence of wireless by young people and college residents seen by wireless carriers and college administrators.
The CDC said nearly two-thirds (62.9%) of adults living only with unrelated adults were also in homes that were wireless-only.
Forty-three percent of renters had wireless phones only, and 49% of adults aged 25 to 29 had only wireless phones in their homes.
For groups aged between 18 and 24, and between 30 and 34, about 37% lived in wireless-only homes. Men were slightly more likely than women (by 25% to 21%) to live in homes with only wireless phones
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