Verizon Begins Building Cell Phone Towers
Posted on Tuesday, 19 of August , 2008 at 8:34 pm
Construction has begun on the first four of 13 cell phone tower sites that Verizon Wireless will erect along the Adirondack Northway. Earlier this year, the Adirondack Park Agency approved sites in North Hudson, Schroon Lake, Lewis and Warrensburg.
Verizon Wireless said the towers are expected to be operational by year’s end. They are expected to close a 50-mile gap along the Northway where cell service is unavailable. The towers are part of $100 million of investments Verizon is making this year in upstate New York.
The APA is currently reviewing applications for additional towers in Chesterfield and Lewis.
The need for cell phone service along the remote area of I-87 was spotlighted during the winter of 2007 when a Brooklyn man froze to death and his wife miraculously survived after the couple became trapped in their car on an isolated stretch of the Northway about 75 miles south the Canadian border following an auto accident in Essex County.
They were unable to exit the car and although they had a cell phone with them, they were unable to get cell service. 8-18-08
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