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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 41 of 156 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />David Haughney: I am not a real estate expert. I submit a search ring and a real estate and site 2 <br />acquisition experts return with candidates from that ring. I am familiar with the area, if there was a 3 <br />water tank somewhere in the ring I might even suggest it as part of my search ring submission to 4 <br />Mr. Yeagley. When I submit that ring for evaluation I might say there’s a known tower in here, in 5 <br />this ring, and we like it. So in that respect, no, I didn’t have any familiarity with any existing 6 <br />structures and I leave it up to them to be professional with site analysis. 7 <br /> 8 <br />John Price: What are the reasons this new cell tower is needed? 9 <br /> 10 <br />David Haughney: The coverage hole that exists on Mt. Carmel Church Lake Road needs 11 <br />coverage improvement and all of the surrounding sites around it will greatly benefit from the 12 <br />capacity improvement that it offers. 13 <br /> 14 <br />John Price: And the other sites around it, does that include the UNC campus? 15 <br /> 16 <br />David Haughney: Well, absolutely yes. 17 <br /> 18 <br />John Price: I understand that the proposed tower will create cells using 700 megahertz, AWS, and 19 <br />PCS spectra. Is that right? 20 <br />David Haughney: Correct. 21 <br /> 22 <br />John Price: Are there different business cases developed for the different spectra? 23 <br /> 24 <br />David Haughney: I don’t think in the context that we’re speaking, no. Each one of those bands 25 <br />may indeed be used on this structure and they are used on microcell structures in the network, in 26 <br />this area. 27 <br /> 28 <br />John Price: I understand but 700 Megahertz travels about 3 times the distance of AWS and PCS 29 <br />spectra. Are output powers of the different spectra adjusted to adjust the covering area so all are 30 <br />equal? 31 <br /> 32 <br />David Haughney: No, they’re not all equal. So the lower band frequencies have better coverage 33 <br />and better penetration but there’s a limited amount of bandwith we have in lower band frequency. 34 <br />We use AWS and PCS and we’re exploring other frequency bands for use, because we need 35 <br />more spectra. The lower bands are great. I wish I had an unlimited amount of low band spectra, 36 <br />but we don’t. We have to use the higher band spectra. 37 <br /> 38 <br />John Price: If output powers are not adjusted AWS and PCS cell sites would be smaller in area, 39 <br />wouldn’t they? 40 <br />43