'This is long overdue': Councillor hopes impending cellphone tower improves reception in deep northeast

"The signals in this area are very poor which has been causing multiple challenges in communications for several years."

After a community petition last fall garnered more than 1,000 signatures, Rogers has agreed to build a cellphone tower in northeast Calgary.

The 20-metre tower will be built in October on a vacant patch of land at 10960-42 Street N.E., on the west side of Metis Trail, across from the community of Cityscape.

It comes nearly a year after Skyview Ranch resident Prabhpal Mann started a change.org petition to sound the alarm over poor connectivity in Calgary’s deep northeast that frequently causes calls to drop.