Over Half US Households Only Use Cellphones

Technology

Aaron Pressman, writing for Fortune:

It’s official: For the first time, a majority of American homes have only wireless telephones.

The trend to drop landlines has been growing over the last decade alongside the growth in mobile phone use, according to semi-annual surveys performed by the Centers for Disease Control, which wants to monitor how to contact people for future surveys. But it wasn’t until the end of 2016 that a majority of all households relied solely on mobile phones.

Since leaving my parent’s home for college, I’ve never had a landline. I doubt I ever will.