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• U S WEST Wireless,LLC. <br /> 426 North Fairview Avenue Room 101 <br /> St.Paul,MN 55014 <br /> • Leszviss-r <br /> May 15, 1998 <br /> Zoning Board <br /> City of Elk River <br /> Elk River, Minnesota <br /> Re: Coverage, capacity and interference study for US WEST Wireless site SCL005A <br /> located at 19050 Industrial Blvd. NW, Elk River. <br /> Dear Members: <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 I-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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> Access2TM Advanced PCS' <br /> Paging Services <br />