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An article in the WaPo. I'll put a gift link below.

This applies to the US.
(Yes, we know Europeans, esp. in the north, are even more "wireless").

The data is gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- who began tracking this around 2000 as they wanted to know if there
were correlations to health outcomes. They also worried that cell phone
use might reduce their ability to gather statistics (through phone
interviews) and skew their data.

Key findings (2022).
Wireless only: 72.7%
Landline and wireless: 25.4%
Landline only: 1.3%

<<< “People who have cut the cord” — abandoning landlines to rely only on wireless — “are generally more likely to engage in risky behaviors,” Blumberg told us. “They’re more likely to binge drink, more likely to
smoke and more likely to go without health insurance.” That’s true even when researchers control for age, sex, race, ethnicity and income. >>>

25..34 year olds are most likely to be landline free (~90%).
and the more elderly more likely to still have a landline (no surprise)

Race/ethnicity has a small effect with Hispanic/Latino's most likely to
be wireless, Asians in between, and whites+black less likely to wireless
only. (But all are gathered in a narrow band of 70 .. 80%).

Gender and Education level has little to do with it.

Higher affluence = more likely to have a land line.

Northeast: more likely to have a landline. This seems (per the article)
to be linked to Verizon's business model over the decades.

Urban or rural: little difference.

Shift to wireless only has been constant rate since about 2003 (maybe
longer) at an average of 3.7% per year.

Most landlines now are VoIP.
(Didn't specify type - the "cheap Magic Jack" sort (minimal, LAN based,
no backup, not strictly well integrated with local emergency); or the
robust sort directly integrated into the modem at the end of the cable
or fibre and correctly integrated with local emergency services).

AT&T's "landline" revenue is about 35X smaller than wireless and plans
to cut "copper" by half over the next 2 years.

Link - not sure if multiple people can access this.
https://wapo.st/430fbww

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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
-Ronald Coase

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