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Reliable home phone service in Baltimore, MD that doesn't require internet
City Population: 566,631
Total number of households with telephone service: 254,370
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 60,978
Number of senior citizens: 79,328
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 43,630
Number of cell towers: 72
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
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Reliable home phone service in Baltimore, MD that doesn't require internet
Canton, Charles Village, Federal Hill, Fells Point, Guilford, Hampden, Inner Harbor, Locust Point, Mount Vernon, Patterson Park, Pigtown, Roland Park, Station North, Washington Village, Waverly and many more.
City Population: 566,631
Total number of households with telephone service: 254,370
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 60,978
Number of senior citizens: 79,328
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 43,630
Number of cell towers: 72
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
Traditional copper wire (POTS) landline service is not available in Baltimore, MD. Community Phone allows you to keep your landline phone without internet or copper wire.
In fact, Community Phone is the only landline phone service in Baltimore, MD that does not require internet. Other service providers such as Spectrum, AT&T, and Verizon require an internet connection or a bundle package with cable or internet.
According to survey results from Pew Research, "25% of people 65+ report never going online". That means that 19,832 seniors in Baltimore don't want their primary phone service tied to their internet, even if they do have internet.
Community Phone works by connecting the landline phones of Baltimore residents to cell towers. And Baltimore is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Baltimore, covering 81 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Baltimore to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Baltimore, not just the most populated zip codes like 20906, 21234, 20878.
Landline phone service usage in Baltimore is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 14.0% of Baltimore's 566,631 people are over the age of 65, which means about 51,563 senior citizens in Charm City still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 15,866 Marylanders completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Marylanders. 22.00% of Baltimore's 242,499 households do not have the internet at all, which means 53,350 households can't use internet-based landline service.
