Schroon, NY – There’s only one “dead zone” remaining for cell phone service along a stretch of the interstate highway that cuts through the eastern Adirondacks.
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Public officials and executives with AT&T Mobile on Thursday unveiled the company’s newest cell tower, a 90-foot-tall structure along Interstate 87 — the Adirondack Northway — in the Essex County town of Schroon (skroon). The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports (http://bit.ly/JfVH8M) that it’s the company’s fifth cell tower to go online this year in the Adirondacks.
The new Schroon tower leaves only a 13-mile cell service dead zone along the Northway between exits 30 and 31 in Essex County.
In the winter of 2007, a Brooklyn man froze to death after his car crashed off the highway in the county and he couldn’t call for help because there was no cell service.
problem is–it was between exits 30 and 31, the dead zone that remains!