Proposed cell tower in Enfield would boost area service
Modified: 4/4/2021 5:47:59 PM
ENFIELD A Massachusetts company hopes to expand cell service around Mascoma Lake by building a 190-foot tower on a hill near Route 4.
Vertex Towers, which builds and operates communications towers throughout the country, filed an application late last month requesting Enfield’s permission to construct a structure capable of accommodating “at least five” carriers on a 68-acre property on Morhouse Lane.
Those carriers could include some of the country’s largest wireless providers, including Verizon and AT&T, according to documents submitted to the town.
Rhode Island attorney Francis Parisi, who represents Vertex, said Friday that the tower is intended to fill a hole in wireless service that starts around the intersection of routes 4A and 4 in Lebanon and extends down both sides of Mascoma Lake.