3 posts and columns on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Why Ma Bell Got the Ill Communication

in News on May 13, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Nearly one in four U.S. households has abandoned traditional landline telephones in favor of their wireless brethren. That’s the word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says in a new study that 25 percent of the households it polled for its Wireless Substitution survey are wireless-only, while just 15 percent are landline-only.

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Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?

in News on October 2, 2009 at 12:59 pm PT

If the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic arrives this fall, one thing that may break under the strain is the Internet. Emergency planners say that school-age children and telecommuting adults could be accessing the network simultaneously, potentially overloading the public Internet’s capacity.

Announcing the Coalition Against Landlines…

in News on December 18, 2008 at 9:49 am PT

The average landline phone household spends $40 a month for that service. That’s $480 a year you can save by going cell-only, something more and more households are doing these days. According to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17.5 percent American households depended solely on cellphones for their telephone communications during the first half of 2008.