Approximately nine percent of all German households do not own a regular landline phone connection anymore.

In the beginning of 2008, roughly four millions of private households in Germany were exclusively equipped with mobile phones without relying on additional fixed network phone connections, as was announced by the Federal Office for Statistics and Data Processing early in May 2009. Meanwhile more than nine percent of all German households do without traditional landline phone connections; in 2003, the proportion was four percent.

Especially the age group under twenty-five relies more and more on mobile phones (35% in the beginning of 2008). The older the main income-producing member of the household the more likely it is that a fixed phone network is installed in the household. In the age group of the thirty-four-year-olds, 19% of the households use only mobile phones, whereas the proportion is just 6% in the age group between 55 and 64 years (according to www.spiegel.de).