Chris Leckness

This actually surprises me that we haven't already hit this point. There are so many cell phone users all over that I would have thought that many people have already turned off their land lines. I don't know about now, but you used to have to have a land line with actual phone service to get high speed Internet with many of the phone companies.

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say.

The most recent government data show that households spent $524, on average, on cell phone bills in 2006, compared with $542 for residential and pay-phone services. By now, though, consumers almost certainly spend more on their cell phone bills, several telecom industry analysts and officials said.

Read on at the New York Times

paulg1957

Now that cell phones more multimedia devices then just phones. I agree the spending is increasing. I wonder if we in North America is simply catching up to Japan & Europe?

Also with video calling now available will landlines become almost a quaint relic of the bygone era?

If I can ask one nore question it is this how much of the $524 is for phone calls & how much for everything else, such as internet, downloads &c.

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