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Statistics on Wireless Subscribership in the U.S. (August 10, 2009)
  • More than one of every five American homes (20.2%) deserted their landline telephone service and now rely exclusively on wireless service. Approximately 18.4% of all adults (more than 41 million) live in households with only wireless telephones. A total of 18.7% of all children live in households with only wireless telephones. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2008, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, May 2009.)
  • Wireless subscriptions have risen from 33.8 million in 1995 to 270.3 million in 2008, a 699.7% increase. (Source: CTIA – The Wireless Association, Wireless Quick Facts, 2009.)
  • Wireless penetration for the U.S. population has increased from 13% in 1995 to 87% in 2008. (Source: CTIA – The Wireless Association, Wireless Quick Facts, Year End Figures, 2009.)
  • The FCC has reported “the United States continues to lead the world in average minutes of use per subscriber” – individual customers in the U.S. use five times the number of minutes as the average European subscriber. (Source: CTIA – The Wireless Association, Wireless Quick Facts, 100 Wireless Facts, 2009.)
  • Adults living in (30.9%) or near poverty (23.8%) were more likely than higher income adults to be living in households with only wireless telephones. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2008, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, May 2009.)
  • It took more than 21 years for color televisions to reach 100 million consumers, more than 90 years for landline service to reach 100 million consumers and less than 17 years for wireless to reach 100 million consumers. (Source: CTIA – The Wireless Association, Wireless Quick Facts, 100 Wireless Facts, 2009.)
  • Nearly one of every seven American households (14.5%) received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones despite having a landline telephone in the home. Approximately 35 million adults (15.4%) lived in wireless-mostly households. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2008, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, May 2009.)
  • Landline only homes dropped from 34.4% in the first half of 2005 to 17.4% in the second half of 2008. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2008, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, May 2009.)