![]() ![]() ![]() Come in here.’”Īt our feet were two boxers and a basset hound. I wrote a letter to everybody and said, ‘We have shit for cellphone service here, we want you to come in here, we’ll partner with you, we’ll help you however we can. “I promised the companies that we’ll get everybody in the damn county to sign up with them. “How many cell companies have you written to?” I asked. He’d invited me to his house to discuss the new cell service ordinance, and we were swigging Bud Lights at his kitchen table. “I’m doing my level best to get another company in here,” Martin told me in the spring of 2018. The commission assigned its attorney, Robert Martin, to contact all major telecommunications providers asking them to invest in Pocahontas. In early 2018, the Pocahontas County Commission passed a resolution in support of cell service throughout the county, a challenge to the very notion of a Quiet Zone. Reprinted by permission.įor every electrosensitive who wanted radio quiet, there were probably one hundred residents who wanted WiFi and cell service, and they elected the county’s officials. From Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted from the book THE QUIET ZONE: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy. ![]()
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