{"id":14357,"date":"2018-07-02T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=14357"},"modified":"2018-07-05T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T22:11:52","slug":"u-s-households-become-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/u-s-households-become-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Households have become mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wireless\u00a0phones are becoming the way to communicate at home.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Landlines lost the war against mobile phones in the U.S. during 2017.<\/p>\n

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The decline of the landlines<\/p><\/div>\n

On its website, The Verge<\/a> shared data that proved 50.8% of U.S. households now only use cell-phones,\u00a0abandoning landlines to adopt smartphones as their choice of\u00a0communication.<\/p>\n

The change comes after the last fifteen years, when 9 out of 10 Americans had at least one at home and landlines were becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n

This change grew rapidly when cellphones entered the scene in 1973; the death of the Walkman in 2010<\/a> and portable gaming during the 1980\u00b4s shaped the last details on the digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Contributing factors in\u00a0phone ownership<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Age is a contributing factor in landline phone ownership, but so are income and geographical location.<\/p>\n

According to The\u00a0National Health Interview Survey\u00a0(NHIS)<\/a>, U.S. adults living in poverty (66.3%) and near poverty (59.0%) were more likely than higher income adults (48.5%) to be living in households with only wireless telephones.<\/p>\n

GFK reports<\/a> the proportion of U.S. senior citizens (ages 65+) in cellphone-only households quadrupled over the past six years (2011-2017), to 23%, while the figure for Millennials (those born between 1977 to 1994) climbed to 71% from 47%.<\/p>\n

After Millennials, Generation X (born between 1965 and 1976) is the age group most likely to live in cell-only households, at 55%. Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) is only four in 10 (40%).<\/p>\n

A future unplugged?<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Although TextRequest reports<\/a> over 45% of American households owning a landline phone, the trend is beginning to lose force as the latest GfK MRI Survey of the American Consumer\u00ae reported that more than half (52%) of US adults live in households with cellphones but no landline telephones.<\/p>\n

Albertans abandon landlines in Canada<\/strong><\/h6>\n

As for Canada, an annual survey from Statistics Canada<\/a> and CBC<\/a> showed that Albertans are the most internet-connected people in Canada,\u00a0as just 60.5% of homes in Alberta still had a hardwired phone during 2016, which is\u00a0below the national average of 66.8% and below provinces like Quebec (72.5%), New Brunswick (85.7 %) and Newfoundland and (Labrador 86.6 %).<\/p>\n

91.8% of households in Alberta have online access, turning them into the most internet-connected in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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