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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents including any subsequent amendments, with Los Angeles SMSA Limited Partnership, a California limited partnership, dba Verizon Wireless, to provide enhanced cellular services in the Public Safety Parking Garage, at no cost to the City. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into an agreement with Los Angeles SMSA Limited Partnership, a California limited partnership, dba Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless), to provide enhanced cellular services to the Public Safety Parking Garage located adjacent to the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) Headquarters and Fire Station 1 facilities.
On October 23, 2018, the City Council approved the execution of agreements with Verizon Wireless; T-Mobile LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Sprint/United Management Company, a Kansas corporation; and Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (formerly known as AT&T Wireless PCS LLC) to provide enhanced cellular services in the new City Hall and Port of Long Beach Administration buildings at no cost to the City of Long Beach (City).
Modern construction materials interfere with or degrade wireless connectivity with external cellular antennas resulting in poor cellular reception inside buildings and structures such as the new Civic Center. The new Civic Center has been designed with a Cellular Distributed Antenna System (DAS) to extend cellular signals throughout the multi-story City Hall and Port of Long Beach Administration buildings.
In January 2021, the City completed construction of the Public Safety Parking Garage and it became available to the Long Beach Police and Fire departments for use. The same cellular signal degradation that impacted the City Hall and Port of Long Beach Administration buildings has been observed in the new Public Safety Parking Garage. As discussed below, Ver...
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