Young adults ditching landlines for mobiles

New research in the US shows how one in four adults aged 18 to 24 only uses a mobile phone.

Young people are ditching the landline in favour of mobiles both to save money and because mobiles are much easier to use than most landline handsets.

The mobile revolution hasn’t yet hit the over 65’s with only 2 percent having ditched their landline phones for mobiles.

Overall, the portion of adults with only cell phones grew by more than 2 percentage points in the latter half of last year to nearly 12 percent, an expansion rate that began in the first part of 2006 and was double earlier rates of growth.

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