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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Have You Cut the Cord? |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: Have You Cut the Cord?",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Have You Cut the Cord?","summary" : "First, it was party lines. Then, it was the rotary phone. Now, two-in-five (41%) U.S. households have officially said goodbye to landlines, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center for Health Statistics. If you have been keeping up with previous mobile trends, you won’t be surprised","date" : "2014-08-26T10:00:05-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
        
            "emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
            "mobile" : "Mobile"
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      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/08/2014-08-26-trends-on-tuesday-have-you-cut-the-cord.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/08/2014-08-26-trends-on-tuesday-have-you-cut-the-cord.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-have-you-cut-the-cord","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/08/26/trends-on-tuesday-have-you-cut-the-cord/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/08/600-x-400-Scissors-cutting-phone-cord-eskaylim-iStock-Thinkstock-186002262.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Scissors cutting phone cord\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, it was party lines. Then, it was the rotary phone. Now, two-in-five (41%) U.S. households have officially said goodbye to landlines, according to a \u003ca title=\"recent report\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201407.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003erecent report\u003c/a\u003e by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center for Health Statistics.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have been keeping up with previous \u003ca title=\"mobile trends\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/emerging-tech/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emobile trends\u003c/a\u003e, you won’t be surprised to learn who has decided to cut the telephone cord:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn estimated 39.1% of adults and 47.1% of children lived in wireless-only households in 2013.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNearly two-thirds (65.7%) of 25- to 29-year-olds, are living the wireless-only lifestyle, followed by 59.7% of 30- to 34-year-olds, and 53% of 18- to 24-year-olds.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA majority (56.2%) of poor households have no landline service.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn estimated 53.1% of Hispanic households live with no landline phone.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEven region had an impact on the likelihood that a household would be wireless-only. Only a quarter (24.9%) of Northeasterners reported that they lived with no landline phone, versus more than 40% of households in the Midwest, West and South.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHopefully, reading these stats made two words come to mind—mobile first. With the number of mobile-only households continuing to rise from year to year, optimizing your agency’s site for the mobile user experience just makes sense. Check out the \u003ca title=\"Mobile Webinar Series: Mobile First\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/30/mobile-first/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMobile Webinar Series: Mobile First\u003c/a\u003e for resources to help your agency adopt a mobile first approach to Web design.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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