More Than 20 Million Homes Have Cut the Cord on Landline Phones

People of a certain generation remember when a wire connected the headset to your phone, your phone to the wall and your wall to the world. The big advance in the 1990s was–amazingly–freeing the handset from the wire, allowing you to roam more than a few feet while talking.

Now, according to new data released this morning by Nielsen, more people are taking the wire completely out of the equation. And the whole concept of a landline appears to be going the way of the bulky rotary phone.

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