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Reliable home phone service in Jacksonville, FL that doesn't require internet
City Population: 938,717
Total number of households with telephone service: 386,283
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 87,316
Number of senior citizens: 129,543
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 71,249
Number of cell towers: 93
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
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Reliable home phone service in Jacksonville, FL that doesn't require internet
Avondale, Brooklyn, Downtown, Eastside, Mandarin, Murray Hill, Ortega, Riverside, San Marco, Springfield, St Nicholas, Southside, Westside, Northside, Beaches and many more.
City Population: 938,717
Total number of households with telephone service: 386,283
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 87,316
Number of senior citizens: 129,543
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 71,249
Number of cell towers: 93
*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 Jacksonville, FL. 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 Jacksonville, FL 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 32,386 seniors in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville residents to cell towers. And Jacksonville is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Jacksonville, covering 747 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Jacksonville to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Jacksonville, not just the most populated zip codes like 32210, 32244, 32218.
Landline phone service usage in Jacksonville is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 13.8% of Jacksonville's 938,717 people are over the age of 65, which means about 84,203 senior citizens in the River City still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 25,909 Jacksonvillianss completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Jacksonvillianss. 14.2% of Jacksonville's 348,809 households do not have the internet at all, which means 49,531 households can't use internet-based landline service.
