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U S WEST Wireless, LLC. <br />426 North Fairview Avenue Room 101 <br />St, Paul, MN 55014 <br /> <br />May 15, 1998 <br /> <br />Zoning Board <br />City of Elk River <br />Elk River, Minnesota <br /> <br />Re: Coverage, capacity and interference study for US WEST Wireless site SCL005A <br /> located at 19050 Industrial Blvd. NW, Elk River. <br /> <br />Dear Members: <br /> <br /> US WEST Communications is scheduled to deploy a wireless Personal <br />Communications System (PCS) for the Minneapolis - St. Paul greater metropolitan <br />area in the second quarter of 1998. The intent of the deployed system will be to <br />provide ubiquitous wireless services to the Twin Cities and surrounding communities <br />including St. Cloud and communities along 1-94 & Hwy. 10 corridor. In order to meet <br />the requirements of continuous (seamless) coverage and .to be able to carry the <br />projected traffic, a cell site is currently designed to be built at 19050 Industrial Blvd. <br />Elk River, Minnesota. <br /> <br /> In deploying a PCS system, distinguishing features from conventional Cellular <br />services currently available will be the PCS system's voice quality, capacity and <br />coverage depth. Utilizing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, US <br />WEST's system will provide voice quality that compares favorably to landline quality <br />with site capacity capabilities of approximately six times that of an analog cell site. <br /> <br /> While choosing an appropriate location for a proposed cell site, we try to meet <br />the coverage and capacity objectives of that particular service area. In a typical <br />situation when a system designer is faced with a trade off between capacity and <br />coverage, the RF design engineer applies the knowledge of the terrain and <br />surrounding clutter to the site selection process. For the service area encompassing <br />19050 Industrial Blvd. NW, the analysis was as follows: <br /> <br /> Coverage: One of the major and most visible differences between PCS and <br />Cellular systems is the area of coverage of an individual cell. Due to the higher <br />frequency of operation, PCS cells will have considerably smaller coverage areas than <br />Cellular cells. (For purely coverage, all things except frequency being equal, to cover <br />a given area at the PCS frequency (1900 MHz) versus the Cellular frequency (900 <br />MHz) requires, 2 - 3 times more cells.) In order to cover the traffic on the heavily <br />Hwy. 10, connecting the cities of Anoka and Big Lake to Elk River and to ensure <br />proper connectivity to our proposed cell sites to the South - East and North-West <br /> <br />Access2TM Advanced PCSTM <br />Paging Services <br /> <br /> <br />