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City Population: 115,552
Total number of households with telephone service: 45,145
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 14,931
Number of senior citizens: 21,724
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 11,948
Number of cell towers: 11
*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 Palm Bay, 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 Palm Bay, 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.
Landline phone service usage in Palm Bay is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 18.8% of Palm Bay's 115,552 people are over the age of 65, which means about 14,120 senior citizens in Palm Bay still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 4,345 Palm Bay residents completely rely on landlines for their phone service.
Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Palm Bay residents. 11.30% of Palm Bay's 39,109 households do not have the internet at all, which means 4,419 households can't use internet-based landline service.
According to survey results from Pew Research, "25% of people 65+ report never going online". That means that 5,431 seniors in Palm Bay 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 Palm Bay residents to cell towers. And Palm Bay is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Palm Bay, covering 66 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Palm Bay to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Palm Bay, not just the most populated zip codes like 32907, 32909, 32905 .
City Population: 115,552
Total number of households with telephone service: 45,145
Households 65 years and over with telephone service available: 14,931
Number of senior citizens: 21,724
Number of senior citizens with a landline: 11,948
Number of cell towers: 11
*Data is estimated from the 2021 American Community Survey Data and 2022 US Census Estimates.
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