2018-06-07 Hearing Transcript - Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless USE 17-074

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you explain little bit more? Did you guys do any testing on that other street or whatever street they were talking about? DE LA GARZA: We did do some modeling. The problem with the park location is that it's very close to our existing site, so we would end up having overlapping coverage. Overlapping coverage is actually bad for LTE `cause it all operates on the same frequencies. You end up having interference, and the sites will interfere with themselves. So, you end up having to tilt your antennas down. They don't cover as far. It's not, from an efficiency perspective, it's terribly inefficient, and it doesn't make the park a really good viable option because it's too close to our existing site, and it also leaves a huge gap up to the north of section of houses that wouldn't be, wouldn't be covered. And, if we are in a situation where we have to build denser and denser or closer and closer to our existing sites, we end up needing more sites. So, from an efficiency perspective and getting the most sites, the most coverage from one site, this location that we chose is ideal for us. AGUINALDO: If you go further little bit more north or to the dead end, would that work? DE LA GARZA: Then, we would end up opening—you see the coverage hole, gap in the center right there? The yellow that's in the—on the right, the right hand? AGUINALDO: Mm-hmm. DE LA GARZA: That would end up opening up that gap, and it would also cause us to have to build more sites to completely cover the neighborhood `cause that's our MARTIN: I also wanted to let you know that I did try to seek out those property owners on the end, and I couldn't find anything viable. CLARKSON: Okay, any other questions for the DE LA GARZA: I hope I answered your question. CLARKSON: Applicant. RAFFIPIY: Question. The green shaded areas, that's the coverage area. The yellow shaded areas are not the—that's the not DE LA GARZA: I would say, I would say it's more marginal. I would have to take a really, really close look at the legend in the corner there to CLARKSON: So, it's like the green is four bars and the yellow is three or two bars or? DE LA GARZA: It's not as, it's not as clear-cut as bars, because bars can indicate signal strength, but if you have like interference where your sites are too close together, you'll get poor signal-to-noise ratio. The sites basically they interfere with each other, and it causes you to have slower throughputs, and it doesn't perform as well, but note from our previous coverage maps EXHIBIT A 4