Government
New Canaan Pursues $29K Cell Service ‘Drive Test’
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New Canaan soon could have hard data to back up what many residents know anecdotally: The town has a lot of cell service dead zones. Even with service coming to parts of eastern New Canaan as a cellphone tower goes up on Silver Hill Hospital property, connections often are spotting in areas such as Ponus Ridge and Smith Ridge—an inconvenience as well as a public safety concern, officials say. Soon, our town roads could undergo a “drive test” that would see a specially outfitted vehicle record cell strength on a street-by-street basis, and provide New Canaan with site-specific data that it’s never had before. At the request of the New Canaan Utilities Commission, the Board of Selectman approved $29,000 for an independent consulting firm to complete the project. The item is expected to go before the Board of Finance and Town Council in May.