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Simple, dependable, affordable home phone service, with no copper cables or internet required, starting at $39/month.
Community Phone offers unlimited local and long-distance calling by connecting your landline phone to cell phone towers in your area.
If you do not have coverage, you can send it back to us for a refund.
Take full control over your phone service experience. Schedule a demo today.
Get a new toll free or local area code number, and choose the rest of the digits.
Forward calls from a cell phone or landline, and get rid of your existing phone service completely.
Take full control over your phone service experience. Schedule a demo today.
Get a new toll free or local area code number, and choose the rest of the digits.
Forward calls from a cell phone or landline, and get rid of your existing phone service completely.
Get $50 off your landline base, and your first three months of service for just $29/month. To get started, call us at 866-969-4886 and ask our sales representatives about our Senior Discount.
Louisiana
Reliable home phone service in Lake Charles, LA that doesn't require internet
Traditional copper wire (POTS) landline service is not available in Lake Charles, LA. 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 Lake Charles, LA 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 3,116 seniors in Lake Charles 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 Lake Charles residents to cell towers. And Lake Charles is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Lake Charles, covering 42 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Lake Charles to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Lake Charles, not just the most populated zip codes like 70605, 70601, 70607.
Landline phone service usage in Lake Charles is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 15.9% of Lake Charles's 78,396 people are over the age of 65, which means about 8,102 senior citizens in The Lake Area still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 2,493 Lake Charlesians completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Lake Charlesians. 22.30% of Lake Charles's 33,093 households do not have the internet at all, which means 7,380 households can't use internet-based landline service.
