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Reliable home phone service in Janesville, WI that doesn't require internet
City Population: 64,575
Total number of households with telephone service: 29,511
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 5,902
Number of senior citizens: 10,978
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 6,038
Number of cell towers: 4
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
Reliable home phone service in Janesville, WI that doesn't require internet
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City Population: 64,575
Total number of households with telephone service: 29,511
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 5,902
Number of senior citizens: 10,978
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 6,038
Number of cell towers: 4
*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 Janesville, WI. 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 Janesville, WI 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 2,744 seniors in Janesville 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 Janesville residents to cell towers. And Janesville is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Janesville, covering 34 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Janesville to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Janesville, not just the most populated zip codes like 92672, 92673.
Landline phone service usage in Janesville is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 17.00% of Janesville's 64,575 people are over the age of 65, which means about 7,136 senior citizens in Janesville still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 2,196 Janesvillians completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Janesvillians. 16.40% of Janesville's 27,302 households do not have the internet at all, which means 4,478 households can't use internet-based landline service.
