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Reliable home phone service in Corpus Christi, TX that doesn't require internet
City Population: 327,423
Total number of households with telephone service: 117,366
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 29,000
Number of senior citizens: 45,839
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 25,211
Number of cell towers: 36
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
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Reliable home phone service in Corpus Christi, TX that doesn't require internet
Bay Area, Calallen, Central City, Flour Bluff, Mustang-Padre Island, Northwest Corpus Christi, South Side, The Bluffs, The Lakes, The Plantation, The Southside, The Vineyard, Tropic Isles, Westside, Woodlawn and many more.
City Population: 327,423
Total number of households with telephone service: 117,366
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 29,000
Number of senior citizens: 45,839
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 25,211
Number of cell towers: 36
*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 Corpus Christi, TX. 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 Corpus Christi, TX 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 11,460 seniors in Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi residents to cell towers. And Corpus Christi is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Corpus Christi, covering 161 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Corpus Christi to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Corpus Christi, not just the most populated zip codes like 78415, 78413, 78412.
Landline phone service usage in Corpus Christi is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 14.0% of Corpus Christi's 327,423 people are over the age of 65, which means about 29,795 senior citizens in Texas Riviera still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 9,168 Corpus Christi residents completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Corpus Christi residents. 14.6% of Corpus Christi's 117,789 households do not have the internet at all, which means 17,197 households can't use internet-based landline service.
