Officials call for better cell phone coverage in St. Lawrence County - WWNY

ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, New York (WWNY) - Recent compartment telephone work problems successful St. Lawrence County person officials determination calling for amended coverage. But, that’s easier said than done.

When Ronald Burke isn’t moving arsenic the superintendent of the Canton School District, helium serves arsenic the main of Madrid’s rescue squad.

As chief, 1 contented that has him disquieted is the deficiency of compartment work successful St. Lawrence County - alleged dormant spots - particularly erstwhile the caller has an emergency.

“Even wrong Canton, we person our pockets. It’s that proverbial past mile wherever getting that benignant of connectivity is difficult,” helium said.

Last week, Burke received reports from country residents astir disruptions successful their Verizon compartment service. Burke says this contented was highly worrying due to the fact that if an exigency had happened and the web didn’t work, determination would beryllium nary mode that exigency services would person known.

“The idiosyncratic connected the different broadside of the telephone not being capable to pass and what the existent exigency is, to me, that’s a immense concern,” helium said.

St. Lawrence County Legislator Margaret Haggard is moving connected improving broadband and compartment sum astir the region but says determination are hurdles with this process.

“These carriers are truly missing retired and we person to support pushing to marque definite that what happened a week oregon truthful agone doesn’t hap again, due to the fact that that does permission gaps successful our quality to get to radical successful an emergency,” she said.

7 News asked Verizon astir the caller disruption. In a statement, it said: “Our web engineers worked hard to pinpoint and resoluteness a caller contented that resulted successful distorted audio connected calls for immoderate customers successful your area. It’s important to enactment that those customers passim the contented could inactive scope 911, arsenic calls were inactive being connected.”

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