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Reliable home phone service in Huntsville, AL that doesn't require internet
City Population: 207,921
Total number of households with telephone service: 96,551
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 23,400
Number of senior citizens: 34,099
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 18,754
Number of cell towers: 40
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
Alabama
Reliable home phone service in Huntsville, AL that doesn't require internet
Chapman Heights, Chippendale, Downtown, Five Points, Fleming Meadows, Hampton Cove, Jones Valley, Medical District, Merrimack Village, Monte Sano, Old Town, Providence, Research Park, Twickenham, Whitesburg and many more.
City Population: 207,921
Total number of households with telephone service: 96,551
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 23,400
Number of senior citizens: 34,099
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 18,754
Number of cell towers: 40
*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 Huntsville, AL. 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 Huntsville, AL 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 8,525 seniors in Huntsville 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 Huntsville residents to cell towers. And Huntsville is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Huntsville, covering 209 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Huntsville to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Huntsville, not just the most populated zip codes like 35810, 35811, and 35803.
Landline phone service usage in Huntsville is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 16.4% of Huntsville's 207,921 people are over the age of 65, which means about 22,164 senior citizens in Rocket City still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 6,820 Huntsvillians completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Huntsvillians. 13.0% of Huntsville's 86,961 households do not have the internet at all, which means 11,305 households can't use internet-based landline service.
