Your home telephone is on its way out, eclipsed by newer communications technologies offering more features and greater convenience. According to a 2019 report by the National Center for Health Statistics, only 42% of Americans still have a landline phone — and the graph below by Statista shows that number dropping by 3.6% every year.
The authors of the 2019 NHIS Wireless Substitution Report, Stephen J. Blumberg, PhD and Julian V. Luke wrote:
“Preliminary results from the July–December 2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of American homes with only wireless telephones continues to grow. More than one-half of American homes (57.1%) had only wireless telephones during the second half of 2018 — an increase of 3.2 percentage points since the second half of 2017. More than three in four adults aged 25–34 (76.5%), and a similar percentage of adults renting their homes (75.5%), were living in wireless-only households… ”
If the trend holds, the common landline “home phone” will have essentially disappeared in the U.S. within the next decade, relegating this technology completely obsolete for the average consumer.
my land line left in the 90s had no value except to take your money
Not for me!
Your cellphone is your voluntary ankle bracelet.
Listening and tracking you 24/7/365
We have a land line because THEIR SIGNAL SUCKS.
Billion dollar companies in the year 2021 and no signal.
There is a section in DE on 13N WITH NO SIGNAL
Johnson Rd, no signal
Developments off St Lukes Rd, no signal
RT 13S in Salisbury on occasion, no signal.
Cell phones do not work in a crisis, my land line has never failed me.
I can not tell you how sick of this $HIT, I am. It is ridiculous.
Local jurisdictions reject new cell antennas because they block your view of new Wind towers in the ocean.
June 16, 2021 At 7:58 Pm——-AGREE WITH YOU 100%——MY CELL PHONES DO NOT WORK WHERE I LIVE !!!
OC City Fail tabled (said no) to expanding cell signals with 3 new towers. Guess we know who still uses LandLines!
Get out of 20th century mindset! 3 new towers would help everyone! Everyone foots the bill to make the island thrive.
Wake Up!
I got rid of my landline last year and transferred my house phone to a mobile base station through consumer cellular. I could not be happier. I now have caller id, unlimited talking and long distance and it is cheaper than my landline and doesn’t go out when I have a thunderstorm.
Also no more line noise or that hum you get when there is water damage to the lines.
I no longer have to deal with Verizon’s customer no service as well.
I even switched my mothers landline to a base station phone and she no longer has problems like she had every time we had a storm. I put her on my plan because she was also getting ripped of by Verizon.