Cord cutting growth slows, 41% of US homes wireless only

Wireless continues to grow as the communication device of choice for U.S. households, but that growth has begun to slow.
According to the most recent National Health Interview Survey, 41% of American homes had only a wireless device during the second half of 2013, which was a 1.6-percentage point increase from the first half of last year and 2.8-percentage point increase from the second half of 2012. However, that year-over-year change dipped from the 4.2-percentage point increase between 2011 and 2012, and the 5.2-percentage point increase between 2009 and 2010.
At the end of last year, the report found that 47.1% of children under the age of 18 were wireless only, while 39.1% of adults claimed to be wireless only, an increase of 1.7-percentage points and 1.1-percentage points respectively from the first half of last year. Among households that included both wireline and wireless telephone service, which accounted for 16.1% of all households, 33.6% of respondents said they received nearly all of their calls on their wireless device.
Digging in deeper, the report found that men (40.4%) were more likely than women (37.9%) to be living in a wireless-only household; adults in the Midwest (43.7%), South (41.9%) and West (41.2%) were more likely to be living in a wireless-only household than those living in the Northeast (24.9%); and that approximately 2.5% of households did not have any phone service.
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