33 million of us use only a cell phone
Have you cut the landline cord yet? 33 million of us have.
As mortgage banker Michael Balberchak received raises over the last several years, the 39-year-old moved to better apartments. Each time, he had to pay an installation fee for the residential phone line, and he grew tired of the charges. So last year, when he moved to the West Hills section of Huntington, he decided to cut the cord on his home phone.
"I said, 'You know what? Forget it. I'm just going to keep my cell phone,'" said Balberchak. "The first couple of months it was just a little weird because you like the security of a landline, just having it. But then months went by, and I didn't even miss it. I forgot that I had it."
Balberchak is among an estimated 33 million American adults who use only a cell phone, according to Yankee Group, a technology research and consulting company based in Boston. As many as 15 percent of U.S. adults used only a cell phone last year, up from 10 percent of adults in 2006.
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