Gartner: Predicts 30% of Homes to be Cellular or VoIP-Only

30% Of Homes To Be Cellular Or VoIP-Only: Gartner
By Mobile Pipeline Staff

Courtesy of Mobile Pipeline

By 2010, 30 percent of homes in the U.S. will exclusively use either cellular phones or voice-over-IP, according to a report released Tuesday by market research firm Gartner.

"It only took more than 125 years but POTS (plain old telephony service) is now on the decline in the U.S.," Ken Dulaney, a Gartner vice president, said in a statement. "The emergence of VoIP and the phenomenal rise of the mobile phone now represent the 'dial tone' for the future."
The study noted that the trend is already well underway. It said that, in 2004, about 90 percent of all new telephone connections worldwide were mobile.

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I guess we'll see. We've got 5 years to wait and see.