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  One of the key elements of market research here at B2B International is being able to ask questions to the market. Without the market, we are nothing. A solid base of communication has always been through the use of phone lines that run into peoples homes and offices. However in the article below it outlines the current trend in America to do away with landline phones and only use a mobile. This article published in Research magazine has left people wondering if there will be a future for telephone interviewing?
  A sharp rise in the number of people in the US living in homes without landline telephones has prompted concern among researchers about the future of phone surveys.
  In the first half of last year, 12.5% of US households did not have a landline, up from 8.4% the year before, according to the US Department of Healthâs National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). 10.5% of homes had only mobile phones, while 2% had no phone at all.