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  • UPSTATE CELL-OUT [New York State]

    12/16/2007 12:35:44 PM PST · by Mr_Moonlight · 59 replies · 423+ views
    New York Post ^ | December 16 2007 | NY Post Editorial
    Nearly a year after a Brooklyn man froze to death on the Adirondack Northway because he couldn't get cellphone service, the Spitzer administration has yet to fix the life-threatening problem. Temperatures were well below zero when 63-year-old Alfred Langner's car went off the road in a treacherous 47-mile cell-phone “dead zone" last January. Unable to call for help, he succumbed to hypothermia 13 hours later, while his injured wife waited some 20 hours more before a passing state trooper noticed the vehicle. But with the mercury dropping again, the dead zone remains - and the Spitzer team's foot-dragging is largely...