Approximately four million private households in Germany were equipped at the beginning of of 2008 with mobile phones, without ordering additionally over fixed mains connections. That corresponds to a portion of nine per cent of all German private households. To this result the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) comes to the evaluation of a current income and consumption sample. In the year 2003 the portion of the households with mobile phone and without fixed net telephone had amounted to still four per cent.