Source: Leslie Cauley, USA Today

Traditional land-line phones, once the bedrock of communications in the USA, are quickly going the way of eight-track tapes as consumers go wireless or choose Internet-based phone calling.

According to a report due to be released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly one out of every six homes in the USA — 15.8% — had only wireless telephones during the second half of 2007, up from 6.1% during the same period in 2004.

“America has a lot of gabbers,” says Sameer Mithal, a senior principal with IBB Consulting in Princeton, N.J. “The ability to talk on the go is what Americans like to do.”

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