Major inconvenience in the fact that cell phone service at Pinkham Notch is so poor! I have Verizon and two of my hiking partners this week have AT&T. Our party of 6 had split into three groups, and we very much wanted to check in with Group 3 from the base, having finished our day's hikes, and we were unable to summon cell service at Pinkham. I'm floored that this vitally important and useful communication service, available at points along Boott Spur Trail (luckily I picked a good spot up there from which to make a call to one of the three parties), is NOT available at the home base.
Does anyone here know what the story is on this? One cell tower at the base carrying all four major service providers would seem to be an obvious move. Anyone want to pool money to make this happen?