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Also attached to this agenda item: CAF - LL Intro 5 of 2024 Draft Telecommunication law 3.2024 LWRP Policy review sheet2014withSECIV Powerpoint Presentation SEAF 1 - LL Intro 5 of 2024

VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON- HUDSON, NEW YORK INFRASTRUCTURE AND COVERAGE ANALYSIS September 18, 2023 © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Known Cell Sites • Known Cell Sites in/around Village (% Area Served by Site) • Most of the coverage in the Village comes from towers outside of Village* for Verizon and T-Mobile, including from unknown sites • Veterans Plaza provides plurality of coverage in the Village • Hessian Hills site includes only public safety wireless service Site (Height in ft.) Verizon AT&T T-Mobile Van Wyck (81) 8.3% Not Used 13.9% Veterans Plaza (140) 29.6% 55.6% 25.9% Scenic Drive* (150) 9.3% 11.1% 5.6% Yorktown Road* (~50) 0.0% 0.0% Not Used Danish Home* (~80) 23.1% Not Used Not Used Coverage from Above 5 70.4% 66.7% 45.4% Coverage from outside* 62.1% 44.4% 60.2% © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Drive Test Summary • Conducted on 8/29/23 • Three Samsung S22 phones, one each from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon • Includes 2+ hours of driving, plus a tour of Hudson National Golf Course • Data processed into grids for localized summarization • Used Televate’s Pinpoint™ software to collect and analyze the data Drive Test Routes (Red) and Points (Green) © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Cell Service Summary AT&T T-Mobile Verizon Service Availability 97.8% 85.3% 100% Ping Loss (Overall) 9.6% 25% 1.6% Signal Level 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile (dBm) -110/-105/-101 -116.8/-112/-107 -109/-105/-100 Median Throughput (DL/UL in Mbps) 6.4/1.7 5.7/4.6 13.4/7.2 Percent Area at: 768/256 kbps* 78.8% 82.7% 97.9% 5/1 Mbps** 54.1% 55.6% 83.5% * The former FCC threshold for mobile broadband ** The current FCC threshold for LTE mobile broadband service © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Carrier Signal Strength <-123 (No Service) -117 to -123 (Outdoor) -107 to -117 (In-Vehicle) -97 to -107 (Light Indoor) -87 to -97 (Residential Indoor) >-87 (Light Commercial Indoor to Heavy Commercial Indoor) Verizon Wireless AT&T T-Mobile Best Signal Signal Strength (dBm) © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Carrier Signal Strength Summary 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% T-Mobile AT&T Verizon > -87 (Light to Full Commercial Indoor) -87 to -97 (Residential Indoor) -97 to -107 (Light Indoor) -107 to -117 (In-Vehicle) -117 to -123 (Outdoor) <-123 (No Service) © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Speed Tier Attained / Best Speeds 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% T-Mobile AT&T Verizon Speed Tier in Megabits per Second (DL/UL) <768/256 (kbps) 768/256 (kbps) 5/1 Mbps 7/1 Mbps 35/3 Mbps Best Aggregate Speed UL+DL Verizon T-Mobile AT&T © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Possible Sites To Fix Low Signal Areas Problem Area Potential Site(s)* Hessian Hills Hessian Hills PS Site Southeast Village** Croton Free Library Tompkins ES Croton High School Grand Street** Tompkins ES Grand Street FH Prospect Place** Washington FH Albany Post Road N/A For AT&T & T-Mobile: NW Corner Existing Danish Home Site *Directional, not an engineering analysis, each carrier should conduct their own engineering. Requires propagation studies. **May benefit from taller Van Wyck site Best Signal Level From All Carriers © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Southeast Village View • DPW Yard may* provide some help to Bungalow, Radnor, and Riverside Road • Highly variable signals due to terrain (requires propagation analysis for each site) • Nordica / Truesdale Drive likely difficult to cover from existing sites (potentially small cell or from adjacent jurisdiction) * Requires a propagation study. Is not expected to help given proximity of Veterans Plaza and the geometry © 2023 Televate, LLC. All rights reserved. Other Thoughts/Recommendations • Public safety service could be enhanced using some of these sites as well (unknown, did not measure or analyze). May represent a Village liability because police and fire can’t communicate* at some locations • Recommend Village immediately conducts a public safety coverage study to better understand what potential sites could play a dual public safety/cellular role • There are many weak coverage areas in the Village – will require many sites to serve, the few macro sites included in this analysis are insufficient to address all issues uncovered and may require small cells • AT&T and T-Mobile could use the Danish Home site to improve service in NE • Sites in this rough terrain are serving a very limited distance, and therefore, you should be cautious about applying generalized requirements about distance to alternative sites. E.G., • No service in Village from Yorktown Road site (1 mile outside of Village) • Poor service levels within 0.25 miles of Van Wyck *Per EMS statement at kickoff meeting Worst Signal Level Municipal Site Service Additional Map Views T-Mobile (30’ AGL?) VzW (80’ AGL)