Verizon gets approval for new Adirondack cell tower

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Verizon gets approval for new Adirondack cell tower

Story Created: May 9, 2008 at 9:47 AM EDT

Story Updated: May 9, 2008 at 9:47 AM EDT

LAKE PLACID (AP) - Verizon Wireless has permission to build a fourth cell-phone tower along the Adirondack Northway as part of its plan to fill a service gap along remote stretches of the upstate New York interstate.

The Adirondack Park Agency says Verizon can build the 94-foot tower - which will be disguised to look like a pine tree - at Schroon Falls, about 100 miles north of Albany. That's on the southern edge of a 47-mile so-called "dark zone" on the Northway.

Verizon started adding towers to the Northway after a Brooklyn man crashed and froze to death in January 2007, unable to call for help.

The death prompted a public outcry, and state officials, environmentalists and the New York-based phone company forged an
agreement to add towers that blend into the landscape.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Friday, May 9 at 10:56 PM missy wrote ...

I pay verizon 115. a month for cell service and I cant even use it at my house or for about at least 7 miles in either direction from my house,suppose to be for security /emergency .Well I pay 115 for cell service and 109 for home service,I cant even get high speed internet on home service -that company can take my money every month also and tell me they dont service my area for everything.some reform for the paying customer needs to happen because Im feeling a little short changed so to speak.

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Friday, May 9 at 8:55 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Thanks to the APA for allowing this to happen. VZW has been willing to build this out for years but faced alot of oppostion from the park people.

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Friday, May 9 at 10:16 AM BD wrote ...

It's about time!

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