U.S Love Affair With Cell Phones Growing

In the United States it seems that we have become a country of people who like talking while we are on the run. Cell phone usage in the U.S. has skyrocketed in the last 12 years. We all have stories about being forced to listen to some dumb conversation that is going on with some cell phone user while we are stuck with them on a bus or restaurant and being bothered to death by it and wishing that they would just shut up. Listed below is a chart that indicates just how fast cell phone ownership has grown in the U.S. since 1995-2006. (source CTIA)

YEAR ------- U.S. USERS
1995 -------- 33,700,000
1996 -------- 44,043,000
1997 -------- 55,312,000
1998 -------- 69,209,000
1999 -------- 86,047,000
2000 ------- 109,478,000
2001 ------- 128,375,000
2002 ------- 140,767,000
2003 ------- 158,722,000
2004 ------- 182,140,000
2005 ------- 207,896,000
2006 ------- 233,041,000