Report from Missoula-based Access Consulting outlines need for improved rural cell phone service, telecommunications

A recently-completed report on the area’s access to telecommunications found, not surprisingly, that many surrounding communities receive spotty to nonexistent cellular phone reception.

Results of the Grand Forks Broadband Connectivity Business Development Roadmap, commissioned by the Grand Forks Region Base Realignment Impact Committee, were presented to the City Council today and will be shared with the Grand Forks County Commission Tuesday.

“You get off the interstate and suddenly you don’t have cell phone service,” said Paul DeWolfe, president of Missoula, Mont.-based Access Consulting http://www.access-consulting.net , which compiled the study. “The farther you get from the city, the less service and less quality of service you have. That is typical of communities across the country.”

By Ryan Schuster, Herald Staff Writer

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