Survey shows mobile phones replacing land lines
Published: Fri, Oct. 03, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Fri, Oct. 03, 2008 02:45AM
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closeNEW YORK -- Faced with tightening budgets and better options for wireless service, people are increasingly cutting the cord of traditional land-line phones.
Of cell phone customers, 27 percent say they have replaced their land lines with mobile phones for daily calling, according to a J.D. Power survey released Thursday. Most of those people -- 61 percent -- have disconnected land line service; the rest keep but don't use their wired connections for calls, the study found. The steadily improving quality of cell phone service is spurring more people to use wireless exclusively, said Kirk Parsons of J.D. Power.
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