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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a License Agreement with Crown Castle NG West, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for the non-exclusive use of City-owned properties for wireless telecommunications facilities for a ten-year term. (Districts 1,2)
DISCUSSION
The growing use of smart phones, mobile web browsing, and streaming video has led to higher demand in cellular data. For the telecommunication industry to support this demand, providers are installing more compact, localized micro cell stations to supplement the shortfalls of traditional larger macro cell stations.
Micro cell sites are used by the telecommunications industry to fill gaps in the macro cell network and to provide focused coverage and capacity to supplement the data capability of macro cell sites. Populated areas with tall, dense buildings that create physical barriers to radio frequencies limit the potential coverage area of a macro cell station. As a result, micro cells are used to fill in gaps in these highly urbanized areas and thus, provide uninterrupted wireless connectivity to the end user. Micro cells have a range of approximately 30 to 6,500 feet and each station typically consists of a single omnidirectional distributed antenna system (DAS), two radio units, and a low voltage converter.
Crown Castle NG West, LLC (Crown Castle), owns, operates and leases shared wireless infrastructure across the continental United States and Hawaii. They provide wireless carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile with the infrastructure to stay connected utilizing approximately 40,000 towers and 15,000 small cell nodes supported by approximately 16,000 miles of fiber optics in hundreds of U.S. markets.
As a State-licensed public utility, telephone corporation, in California, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted Crown Castle a Certificate of Public Convenience Necessity (CPCN) to construct, own, and operate facilities based...
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