A lot of Landline companies are fearing Cable and VoIP providers because a lot of people are ditching heir tradition landline for VoIP service, but should they really worry about VoIP or should they worry abotu cell service as a recent study released by Nielsen says 20% of all US Families will only have Cellphones by the end of 2009.

Nielsen kind of puts the blame on the bad economy, but I don’t really think its the bad economy. Just more and more people are talking less and less on the landlines. Example Radiris a blogger at HardwareGeeks.com has VoIP service but never uses it because she has a cell. She wants to ditch it because she doesn’t use it not because she can’t afford it.

My sister, has a landlind from Verizon, she is also considering ditching it in favor of her cell phone. I my self recently ditched my verizon landline in favor of my cell phone not because I couldn’t afford but because I never used it.

More and more people will be switching to CellPhone only and I think service like TMobile@Home are going to benefit. Plus with Unlimited minute plans there is no reason to turn off your cellphone anymore.

The real reason in my opinion is not the economy as Nielsen said, it has to do with whether we need it or not, so ask your self. “Do I really need a landline if I have a cellphone?”