Cutting The Land Line

WASHINGTON (AP) - Predictions about cell phone domination are
apparently coming true.
According to federal figures out today, the reliance on cells is
growing. Nearly three in ten households get all or most of their
calls on cell phones. Some don't even have hard-wired phones.
The trends are important to pollsters, which rely chiefly on
calls to random landline phone numbers, because federal law forbids
unsolicited calls to cell phones made by computerized dialing
systems.
Other survey highlights: Low-income people are more likely to
have only cell phones; about a third of those under age 30 have
cell phones exclusively; and, households with both types of service
who rarely or never get calls on hard-wired phones tend to be
better educated with higher incomes.

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