More Than Half of Americans Have Cut Phone Cord, Survey Finds

More than half of U.S. adults have cut the cord and live in cellphone-only homes, according to the latest GfK MRI Survey of the American Consumer released Tuesday. The 52 percent without a landline compares with 26 percent in 2010. The portion of senior citizens in cellphone-only households quadrupled in the past six years, to 23 percent, and millennials (born from 1977 to 1994) climbed to 71 percent from 47 percent. Adults of Hispanic/Latino origin are the most likely to have cut the cord -- at 67 percent. Asian-Americans at 54 percent, whites, 51 percent, and African-Americans, 50 percent, were close to the overall average.