A nationwide cellphone outage was resolved same day, but the down time left tens of thousands with no form of communication for hours.

According to the most recent estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics, about 73% of American adults in 2022 lived in households where there were only wireless phones and no landlines, while another 25% were in households with both. Barely over 1% had only landlines.

Missouri State University communication professor Dr. Brian Ott talked about the decline of landlines with the Associated Press.