DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- The Iowa Utilities Board says the number of wireless telephone connections in the state grew by 12 percent from mid-2007 to mid-2009.
The board said Thursday that a new survey shows Iowans are increasingly using wireless telephone service and ending their use of traditional wireline telephones. However the board says the decline was slowed by the growth of cable telephone connections.
The new survey found there were more than 2.1 million wireless telephone connections in Iowa in mid-2009. The board says there are wireless carriers serving 98 percent of the communities in Iowa. The survey also found wireline connections in Iowa decreased 9 percent from 2007 to 2009. There are about 1.3 million wireline connections in the state.
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