Community Phone is the best landline service provider in Pawtucket, RI. Other service providers in the area such as Xfinity, Verizon FiOS and Cox all require an internet connection or a bundle with cable and internet services. Community Phone provides landline service in Pawtucket, RI that doesn’t require internet.

Yes. Community Phone is the only landline service provider in Pawtucket, RI that does not require the internet to work. Community Phone’s landline phone connects to local cell towers in your area, rather than through the internet.

Community Phone offers the cheapest home telephone service in Pawtucket, RI. Starting with plans from $39.00 per month, Community Phone has partnered with the largest nationwide carriers to provide strong and reliable coverage even in the most rural areas.

No, copper wire landline service will no longer be available at all in Pawtucket, RI. By FCC Order 10-721A, traditional providers will no longer be required to offer copper wire landline service in Pawtucket, RI, or anywhere in the country. These providers have already started ending their copper wire service across the country and replacing it with internet-based VoIP phone service. With this regulation lifted, they will continue to shut down copper wire service at a faster rate.

Traditional copper wire (POTS) landline service is not available in Pawtucket, RI. 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 Pawtucket, RI 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 Pawtucket is alive and well. Nearly 2/3rds of people over the age of 65 still use a landline. 12.80% of Pawtucket's 72,117 people are over the age of 65, which means about 6,000 senior citizens in The Bucket still use landlines. Additionally, according to recent Pew Research data, 20% of seniors don't have any cell phone at all, meaning that 1,846 Rhode Islanders completely rely on landlines for their phone service.

Many landline alternatives require internet, but that's not an option for many Rhode Islanders. 16.40% of Pawtucket's 27,903 households do not have the internet at all, which means 4,576 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 2,308 seniors in Pawtucket 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 Pawtucket residents to cell towers. And Pawtucket is well-covered by cell towers; there are several cell towers in Pawtucket, covering 9 square miles. Cell towers have excellent coverage within a 5-mile radius, so there are plenty of cell towers in Pawtucket to provide strong coverage across the city. Community Phone serves every inch of Pawtucket, not just the most populated zip codes like 99301, 98052, 98012.