General
ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE
DISPATCHER/SECRETARY Trades/Construction
Lectra-Serv, Inc
Electricians & Helpers Trades/Construction
Jacobs Electric
Electricians & Helpers Trades/Construction
Pioneer Landscaping
Yard Person/Loader Operator General
Prestige maintenance USA
Custodian Health Care
FRONT OFFICE Trades/Construction
arizona portland cement
maintenance electrician

WASHINGTON — For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a land-line phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.

The federal figures, released Wednesday, showed that reliance on cell phones is continuing to rise at the expense of wired phones. In the second half of last year, 16 percent of households only had cell phones, while 13 percent also had land lines but got all or nearly all their calls on their cell phones.

The number of wireless-only households grew by 2 percentage points since the first half of last year. Underscoring the rapid growth, in early 2004 just 5 percent had only cell phones.

Households with cell phones that rarely if ever use their land lines grew by 1 percentage point since the first half of last year.

Such families often either have their land line hooked exclusively to a computer or rely so heavily on their cell phones that they ignore land-line calls because they are probably from telephone solicitors, said Stephen Blumberg, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the CDC, involved in-person interviews with people in 13,083 households done from July through December of last year.