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Reliable home phone service in Cleveland, OH that doesn't require internet
City Population: 374,394
Total number of households with telephone service: 171,321
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 39,842
Number of senior citizens: 53,538
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 29,446
Number of cell towers: 46
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
Ohio
Reliable home phone service in Cleveland, OH that doesn't require internet
Brooklyn Centre, Buckeye-Shaker Square, Campus District, Clark-Fulton, Cudell, Detroit-Shoreway, Downtown, Edgewater, Fairfax, Glenville, Hough, Ohio City, St Clair-Superior, Tremont, Union-Miles Park and many more.
City Population: 374,394
Total number of households with telephone service: 171,321
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 39,842
Number of senior citizens: 53,538
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 29,446
Number of cell towers: 46
*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 Cleveland, OH. 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 Cleveland, OH 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 13,385 seniors in Cleveland 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 Cleveland residents to cell towers. And Cleveland is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Cleveland, covering 78 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Cleveland to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Cleveland, not just the most populated zip codes like 44130, 44102, 44109.
Landline phone service usage in Cleveland is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 14.3% of Cleveland's 374,394 people are over the age of 65, which means about 34,800 senior citizens in The Forest City still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 10,708 Clevelanders completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Clevelanders. 27.30% of Cleveland's 174,920 households do not have the internet at all, which means 47,753 households can't use internet-based landline service.
