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Honorable Mayor Joseph A. Sack and Members of the City Counci l City of Rye 1051 Boston Post Road Rye, New York 10580

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REPLY TO:

RE: Crown's Expansion of its Existing DAS System in the City of Rye

Dear Honorable Mayor Sack and Members of the City Council:

Pursuant to your request, enc losed please find the coverage maps and additional materials from New York SMSA Limited Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless ("Verizon Wireless'') in connection with the captioned matter. We respectfully submit that the enclosed documentation demonstrates Verizon Wire less' need for the 64 nodes being proposed in the City.

If you have any questions, please do not hes itate to call.

LJS: erw cc: Ver izon W ire less

Chris Fisher, Esq. Crown Castle Kristen Wi lson, Esq.

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April 7, 2017

Hon. Mayor Sack and City Council City of Rye 1051 Boston Post Road Rye, NY 10580

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West Nyack, NY 10994

RE: Crown's Expansion of its Existing DAS System in the City of Rye

Dear Hon. Mayor Sack and Members of the City Council:

In response to your request, I hereby respectfully submit the following on behalf of New

York SMSA Limited Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless ("Verizon Wireless") in connection with

the above referenced matter.

I am a Radio Frequency engineer employed by Verizon Wireless. As a Radio Frequency

engineer, I am trained to identify Verizon Wireless' network needs. As you are aware, Verizon

Wireless has been working with Crown Castle NG East LLC ("Crown") in connection with the

proposed expansion of Crown's existing distributed antenna system ("DAS") in the City of Rye

("City"). In connection with the foregoing, Crown is seeking to construct 64 DAS nodes

("Nodes") in the City to remedy Verizon Wireless ' significant gap in coverage as well as its

capacity needs. These Nodes consist of small equipment affixed to existing utility and other poles.

Currently, Verizon Wireless has only one cell site in the City consisting of several panel

antennas and related equipment on the building located at 66 Milton Road. As detailed below, the

other cell sites surrounding the City provide some coverage into the City but a significant gap in

coverage exists and these surrounding cell sites are reaching capacity so that they will no longer

be able to provide reliable service. The list of Verizon Wireless cell sites surrounding the City

which provide such coverage are set forth on Exhibit 1.

Pursuant to your request, Verizon Wireless has provided maps attached hereto as Exhibit

2 to depict its existing coverage in the City using its 700 MHz and 2100 MHz frequency bands, as

licensed to Verizon Wireless by the Federal Communications Commission. Verizon Wireless did

not provide maps depicting its existing coverage in the City using its 1900 MHz frequency since

neither Verizon Wireless' site in the City nor any surrounding sites are currently providing

coverage to the area utilizing such :frequency.

These maps set forth on Exhibit 2 include coverage from Verizon Wireless' existing sites

in the area, and confirm Verizon Wireless' significant gap in wireless service in the City by using

ATOLL computer generated software ("A TOLL"). ATOLL modeling software is an accepted

industry standard predictive modeling tool that identifies areas where reliable coverage will exist,

and where it will not, and said maps show the significant gap in Verizon Wireless' ability to

provide outdoor in-vehicle and in-building coverage.

It should be noted that natural and manrnade features, such as buildings, hills, trees, and

ridge lines all effect the way radio signals travel and can distort or obstruct radio signals. These

constraints are taken into account in determining the ability of sites to remedy a gap in coverage.

Pursuant to your request, I have included Exhibit 3 which depicts the location of the 64

Nodes on the 700 MHz coverage gap map and shows that such 64 Nodes are largely in dense areas

of the City where Verizon Wireless has no reliable service with its existing sites due to either a

coverage gap or exhausted sectors of existing sites. The 64 Nodes will remedy such significant

gap and enable residents, businesses and emergency service personnel on the network to have

reliable wireless communication services.

In the areas where Verizon Wireless is cunently able to provide coverage to the City due

to the surrounding sites outside the City, these sunounding sites have, or will imminently, reach

capacity so that they will not be able to provide reliable service. As mobile phone use continues to

rise and the demand for voice and data transmitted via such devices increases, the existing sites

responsible for transmitting and receiving such voice and data have become overburdened

resulting in dropped calls, denied access to the network, a reduction in data transmission speed, or

an inability to transmit data.

2

All cell sites have capacity/usage limitations; once those limitations are met or exceeded,

new sites are required to provide reliable service to the area. There are two basic Key Perfonnance

Indicators (KPis) used to determine if a site is experiencing capacity limitations. They are A)

Average Scheduled Eligibility Users (ASEU) and B) Forward Data Volume (FDV). The Scheduler

(where ASEU resides) is effectively the brains of a cell site and is used to detennine what users

can send data: and when it can be sent. If the ASEU is too high the scheduler becomes overloaded

and no new users can join the system and current users will experience data blocking and/or

lost/dropped calls. FDV is the amount of data a cell site can provide before users start to experience

poor data throughputs. Verizon Wireless keeps a close eye on these and other parameters and when

it looks that the trend is to exceed the limit, we seek capacity relief solutions.

As shown by Exhibit 4, the FDV (on the left) and the ASEU (on the right) for both Verizon

Wireless' cell site in the City as well as Verizon Wireless' cell sites surrounding the City have

reached capacity or are nearing same, resulting in dropped calls and causing a slowdown or

inability to access data from those sites. The Nodes will remedy this service issue and enable

Verizon Wireless to provide coverage to its users, including residents, businesses and emergency

first responders, including police, fire and ambulance personnel.

CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, Verizon Wireless has demonstrated a significant gap in coverage

in the City as well as the need for capacity relief. The Nodes will remedy Verizon Wireless'

significant coverage gap as well as its capacity needs. The Nodes will enable residents, businesses

and emergency service personnel to have reliable service on Verizon Wireless' network without

having to construct new cell towers or other large structures in the City. Accordingly, the Nodes

are the least intrusive means for Verizon Wireless to provide its critical service to the City and

therefore, the requested approval should be granted forthwith.

Respectfully submitted,

Ali Aljibori

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Exhibit 1 Existing Verizon Wireless Cell Sites in Rye and Surrounding Area

Street Address State Municipality

330-340 S. Regent Street NY Port Chester

244 Halstead Avenue NY Harrison

275 North Street NY Harrison

99 Biltmore NY Harrison

66 Milton Road NY Rye

Harrison and Gleason Avenues NY Harrison

Fox Island Road NY Port Chester

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