Almost everyone has a cell phone now where the number of people having home phones is shrinking. On top of that, many of those with home phone service now have VOIP instead of traditional service.
Probably under 157.5 million (or less than half of Americans).
*Based on 2013 census data (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html) & 2007 Developed Country Data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fixed_telephone_lines_per_100_inhabitants_1997-2007_ITU.png)
Susprisingly, about 80 percent of US households still have a home phone. This is as of 2008, so it might be a little less now.
about 82.4%
Many Americans use Cox Communications as their home phone provider. As to if they are good or not for you, it depends on your needs and wants in a provider.
Most cities around the United States offer very cheap home phone service. With most Americans tending to just use their cell phones in place of a home phone, the demand for home phones service has dropped, as has the price.
There are many places to purchase Sprint home phone services. A Sprint retail location, found at many different malls, can help set up phone service for the home.
There are many different home phone providers available in Indianapolis. Some of these home phone providers include All Connect, NextWave, and Comcast.
ATT Home Phone service offers its customs many options for the type of phone that they want. They can choose from many types of phones, such as cell or landline.
It is estimated that 2.8 million people work primarily from their home. However, about 34 million Americans work from home at one time or another.
There are 14 million people in the United States that do not have home phone service. There are also 140 million Americans who do not own a cell phone. Approximately 2.5 percent of households have no phone service at all.
10 million but everybody is losing their home because of foreclosure
Get a home phone
In the mobile world we now enjoy, many people are choosing to discontinue their home phone service. Many people who have mobile phones spend most of their waking hours away from home, so they hardly have a chance to use their home phone service. Also, most people carry their cell phone with them at all times, so others call it to make sure they will get to talk. Still, many people prefer to keep their home phone service as a backup and for emergencies.
I'd like to know too. I work for a non-profit and recently sent out texts to a group of people, and I was pretty surprised to find several had given us home phone numbers. I had a home phone as late as a couple years ago, but I still never gave out that number. I just occasionally made calls from it.
A home phone is a land-line, a telephone that is wired to the outlet in the wall.