A Man’s Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

One Man’s Quest To Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

Last fall, Corey Chase drove 6,000 miles around his state to ground-truth what every Vermonter with a cell phone knows: there are many, many places in the state where you simply can’t get a signal, not to mention the 5 megabits per second data download speeds the carriers were claiming. What Chase, a Vermont Department of Public Service employee, found is now part of a detailed challenge before the Federal Communications Commission that officials hope will bring federal dollars into the state to improve the wireless network. Cell phone providers’ maps for Vermont showed that basically the entire state is well covered, said Purvis, with the exception of pockets of Essex County in the Northeast Kingdom and a chunk of the Green Mountain National Forest near Hancock and Rochester.

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