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Reliable home phone service in Baton Rouge, LA that doesn't require internet
City Population: 214,374
Total number of households with telephone service: 87,440
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 20,443
Number of senior citizens: 31,513
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 17,332
Number of cell towers: 50
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
Louisiana
Reliable home phone service in Baton Rouge, LA that doesn't require internet
Broadmoor, Capital Heights, Garden District, Glen Oaks, Highland, Inniswold, Kenilworth, Mid City, Millerville, Oak Hills Place, Old Goodwood, Shenandoah, Southdowns, University Gardens, Westminster and many more.
City Population: 214,374
Total number of households with telephone service: 87,440
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 20,443
Number of senior citizens: 31,513
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 17,332
Number of cell towers: 50
*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 Baton Rouge, LA. 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 Baton Rouge, LA 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 7,878 seniors in Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge residents to cell towers. And Baton Rouge is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Baton Rouge, covering 77 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Baton Rouge to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Baton Rouge, not just the most populated zip codes like 70816, 70810, 70817.
Landline phone service usage in Baton Rouge is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 14.7% of Baton Rouge's 214,374 people are over the age of 65, which means about 20,483 senior citizens in the Big Raggedy still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 6,303 Baton Rougeans completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Baton Rougeans. 17.70% of Baton Rouge's 85,091 households do not have the internet at all, which means 15,061 households can't use internet-based landline service.
