By the slimmest of margins, cell-phone users may have cemented the death of landline phones, new data from Centers for Disease Control show.
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Cell-phone owners just tipped the scale toward the death of landlines
New data from the CDC finds the majority of US homes now use wireless phones instead of landlines.
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In US homes, 50.8% of people are now wireless-only, meaning they rely on a smartphone or mobile phone as their primary form of communication. The remaining 49.2% still use traditional landlines that plug into a wall.
That new ratio, drawn from surveys conducted from July-December 2016, reflects a small but important change from the same period in 2015: It is the first time wireless phone use has surpassed that of landlines.
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