PHONE WARS: More people drop landlines for cell phones

(RNN) - While no one can predict the future, history proves that people will virtually always choose a method that is more convenient, more efficient and more cost effective.

Cell phones seem to win that battle on all fronts. But does that mean that the landline phone is on a virtual deathbed?

This is the first of three stories in a series that explores the place of both cell phones and landline phones and how each will co-exist moving forward.

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As cell phones become sharper and more powerful, so do people's demand for their use.

It is safe to say they have helped shape the world's culture.

The technology that people can hold in the palm of their hand has made immediate impacts on the economy, media, entertainment and even the family structure.

Asking people younger than 30 to imagine the world without cell phones would be akin to asking people older than 50 to imagine the world without the Vietnam War.

Findings listed in the National Health Interview Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a gradual drift toward dropping home phones, or landlines.

Between 2006 and 2009, the number of people who had landlines and no cell phones decreased by half. Between 2009 and 2009, those with cell phones and no landline grew from 25 percent to 30 percent.

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PHONE WARS: More people drop landlines for cell phones