2021-01-07 Windward Exh C AT&T Mobility USE 20-000084

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TOMLINSON: Okay, I think we can agree to that condition. CLARKSON: Okay, thank you. I'm sorry to say this but, I just have to ask this one more question. It has to do with your call eight-hundred fifty (850) megahertz frequencies 5G in your application. I mean 5G is a very emotionally laden word with a lot of people and I for one can't see how you can get 5G bandwidth without what's essentially low 4G frequencies and yet you are still saying you're going to call it 5G. Can you explain that please? TOMLINSON: In terms of using well the low band 850 frequency would be use for the 5G New Radio (NR) in this particular case and a lot of it is done with software in the radios in the backend which improves the efficiency and the capacity for data throughput in that bandwidth. In more urban areas there are different bandwidths used which covers a smaller distance but has a higher capacity for data throughput whereas in this it would be the low band 850 which is a longer distance but doesn't have as great capacity for data. But the software is in the radio and helped manage the network demand and improve the level of service to 5G. CLARKSON: Okay, you are calling it 5G even though basically its just, okay, I guess. Okay, thank you. REPLOGLE: Are there any other questions, comments from the Commission? Commissioners I will entertain a motion for action. CLARKSON: I'd like to move that the application for Use Permit Docket No. 20-000084 be approved based on the Planning Director's recommendation plus adding a condition that the structural design of the tower be referred to be sufficient to accommodate an additional antenna structure equal to the Applicant's antenna structure which shall be adopted. RAFFIPIY: I second the motion. REPLOGLE: It was moved by Commissioner Clarkson and seconded by Commissioner Raffipiy that the project be allowed to go forward with conditions stated and that an additional condition be placed on it that would require the strength or the construction of the tower to be able to withstand co-locating and equal antenna to the one that AT & T is proposing to place on the tower at this point structurally. Is my understanding correct? Yes, Mr. Darrow? DARROW: Thank you Mr. Chairman,just for clarification and for the record. I know there was discussion about a broad leaf tower and to convert it to a monopine. Just want to clarify that still the direction of the Commission and the Applicant. That it be a monopine tower. Is that correct in my understanding? TOMLINSON: That's what AT & T would prefer if the Commission would be requiring stealth, we would prefer it being a monopine. CLARKSON: Does that need to be added as an additional condition, I somehow assumed that monopine was already part of the application. Please add that as a condition. EXHIBIT C 18