Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: Don’t ditch your landline if you’re teetotal:
16% of US homes are mobile-only (but this being the US, cable connections are usually considered separately and not considered ‘fixed’ lines). This number has been increasing consistently.
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Oh, and I love the statistic that wireless-only users are more than twice as likely to binge-drink than landline customers. Now if only someone had an explanation for cause-and-effect here…. does dealing with mobile customer service agents drive you to drink? Or do people cancel their landline subscription when they’re drunk, and wake up in the morning wondering what happened to their dialtone?
I guess that’s the sort of thing you find out when the Centers For Disease Control start doing surveys about phones.
Um, are you kidding about the cause and effect? Obviously, younger, single, urban dwellers still binge drink (pretending to still be in college)…and younger, single, urban dwellers have no need for land lines.
If you weren’t kidding, it’s very ironic you’re promoting a nassim taleb book on your site, since he’s an outspoken critic of such false causal identifications.
I’m just going to let you try and decide on that one…