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Bright Personal Communications Services, LLC <br />A Who//y Owned Subsidiary of iPCS, Inc. <br />An Affiliate of <br />-. -; <br />5 rint<. <br />t % i§ <br />4717 Broadmoor Ave. SE Suite G <br />Kentwood, MI 49512 <br />Date: March 12, 2007 <br />Subject: <br />iPCS Site BR424916 <br />Horvath Site HV-174 <br />195' proposed tower on College Avenue, South Bend, IN <br />Concerned parties, <br />iPCS/Bright Communi~tions Services, LLC is interested in building a tower for the purpose of providing <br />personal communications services to its customers in South Bend, Indiana. Specifically, the area centering <br />on Linrnln Way West between N. Olive Street and Diamond Avenue in South Bend, Indiana. <br />The proposed site will: <br />1) Most importantly, provide wverage in areas where there is .poor to no iPCS mobile phone <br />coverage. Customers may experience dropped calls along Lincoln Way West and surrounding <br />areas southeast of the South Bend Regional Airport <br />2) Provide needed in-building and in-home coverage to customers in this area. <br />3) Provide needed capacity relief to existing on-air iPCS tower sites in the area, particularly <br />those just west of the Notre Dame campus. iPCS is in a unique and undesirable situation in <br />the South Bend area, in that our broadband spectrum is limited to 10 MHz. A typical iPCS <br />market will have double or triple that capacity, i.e. ZO-30 MHz. <br />What this means is that in areas of high mobile phone and mobile data usage surrounding <br />Notre Dame Campus, iPCS must seek to locate additional tower sites. Choosing not to locate <br />additional tower sites in this situation will result in mobile phones going "out of service" and <br />dropped calls, or inability to place calls, on a large scale. Surrounding tower sites can go "out <br />of service" as they attempt to absorb the additional load on the network and become <br />overloaded themselves. This opens up "coverage holes" in our network where users are <br />unable to locate service and use their mobile phones. <br />iPCS first attempts to locate on existing tower structures for new antenna sites. There is an existing <br />Global Signal tower site near this area. However, the Global Signal tower is approximately 1.2 miles <br />from the center of the area we are attempting to provide coverage to. In addition, the available height <br />