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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.
Illinois
Reliable home phone service in Oak Lawn, IL that doesn't require internet
Traditional copper wire (POTS) landline service is not available in Oak Lawn, IL. 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 Oak Lawn, IL 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 2,545 seniors in Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn residents to cell towers. And Oak Lawn is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Oak Lawn, covering 9 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Oak Lawn to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Oak Lawn, not just the most populated zip codes like 92234, 92276.
Landline phone service usage in Oak Lawn is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 18.50% of Oak Lawn's 55,022 people are over the age of 65, which means about 6,616 senior citizens in Oak Lawn still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 2,036 Oak Lawn residents completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Oak Lawn residents. 17.90% of Oak Lawn's 21,154 households do not have the internet at all, which means 3,787 households can't use internet-based landline service.
