The average consumer in the United States has 1.65 phone numbers. Here is how I crunched the numbers:
| Landlines for every 100 U.S. people | 38 |
| Population of U.S. | 319,000,000 |
| My calculated landlines in the U.S. | 121,220,000 |
| Mobile subscribers in U.S. by top 7 carriers | 406,375,000 |
| Mobile + landlines divided by population | 1.65 |
This 1.65 figure is valuable for forecasting the impact of duplicate data in a customer relationship management system (CRM) like Salesforce.com.
Why did I calculate this?
Today, in a co-working office called GeniusDen, I met a gentleman whose lead generation agency is tasked with generating leads for a healthcare services company.