Cell-phone Spending Surpasses Landlines

Cell-phone Spending Surpasses Landlines
250 million cell phones to 170 million landlines...
09:37AM Wednesday Dec 19 2007 by Karl

2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell-phone services than landline services, according to the Associated Press. The latest government data says that American households spent an average of $524 on cell-phone bills in 2006, compared with $542 for residential and pay-phone services. There remains roughly 170 million land lines atill in use nationwide, though there are now more than 250 million cell phones.